Right now i am 17 weeks and wishing i was 37. I have been feeling better and not so nausea and puking, but i have my days where all i want to do is nothing. I have a lot of aches and pains that i didn't have with Matthew either. I am assuming that is because i didn't have an 18 month old to chase around the first time around. Sleeping is not so much fun, i don't do a lot of it at night, so naps are essential. I toss and turn a lot because i cant find a comfortable position and then when i do, its usually on my right side, which is fine for now but eventually the baby will be too big and i will have to sleep on my left side. ( I even asked my dad last night if i could sleep on my right side forever, and he said no because there is some kinda vein or something that is only on the right side and the baby will squish it and cause flow problems to the baby, so no can do. ) The other problem with sleeping, is i have been having the weirdest dreams with the weirdest people in them. People i haven't talked to since high school. That, and they usually involve eating some kinda food the whole dream and i wake up craving it. Like last night it was star burst, i was eating star burst the whole dream and so of course i had to buy some today. The weirdest dream i have had was of my sister, who is also pregnant. But she got to let her baby out of the womb for feedings, attached to the umbilical cord and all and then just stuff the baby back in after it was done eating. Don't ask me how they stuff the baby back in like ten times a day, but they did and i spent the whole dream wondering how they did it and why couldn't i do it too.
One other thing, i haven't felt any kicks yet, but at around 14 weeks i started feeling the baby move at night. When i lay down to go to sleep sometimes i can feel the baby like roll over, which is a weird feeling. Its cool to feel the baby so early though. With Matthew i didn't feel anything until i was 22 weeks. So although i am bigger this time around, thanks to those already stretched out muscles, it does have its benefits. : )
Matthew is doing excellent. He continues to grow and gab a lot without saying much. He will look at you and he thinks he is having a conversation, when he reality he is not speaking English. We are continuing to work on it though and hopefully soon he will have more words. Right now he basically says Mommy and mama a lot. In the car he will switch back and forth from mommy to mama, like 50 times in a row. After about 15 minutes of that, its not so cute anymore. He started nursery 2 weeks ago and i think he really likes it. The first week, he gave another little boy a goose egg on his head, so that was embarrassing. The 2nd week he seemed to know more of what was going on. ( i certainly am enjoying having 2 hours to myself, although Matthew seems to know it and is making sacrament meeting ten times harder. )
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| Matthew all ready for his first day of Nursery! |
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| I couldn't decided which picture looked less bad, so you get both bad pictures of me at 16 weeks. |
