We are firmly in the second trimester!!! YAY! It's a relief to be in the honeymoon trimester, as it's called. morning sickness finally fully passed in the12thweek or so, and I can now open the fridge without gagging!! I'm actually feeling pretty good all around actually. My energy is starting to come back a bit this week even! The one problem I have now is a slight eye sight change (which is normal for pregnancy I've read.) It's been causing me to squint when I'm at the computer or reading,which has been causing some really bad head aches! This is a completely new symptom for me. It's not that bad though.
For craving/aversions, things are pretty much the same since 12 weeks. I only want healthy food...lots of veggies, fruits and grilled chicken! Oranges are my favorite! I find these cravings much better than junk food! I guess I have these lack of strong junk cravings to thank for the 6+ lbs I've lost in the last couple months! Hoping to not lose much more! At least I know that baby is getting what it needs right now!
I'm feeling the baby a lot more often now!!! This is my favorite part of pregnancy! Every now and then I feel the baby flip and turn, or kick! It's still not strong, but now unmistakably baby! I love it! I can't wait for the kicks to get stronger and stronger!
Lily is super excited about the baby! She says she wants a brother (thankfully she did not have a melt down when we found out it was only one baby this time...she was very serious when she said she wanted twins again...one boy and one girl! Thankfully she dropped that after the ultrasound!) She also says she would be happy with a sister too! We'll have to see in a month! We do have one problem though...Lily thinks she is pregnant too!!! When we talk about the baby, she insists that she has a baby in her belly too,and that it is a girl baby! "Mommy, I'm pregnant too! I have a girl baby! I love my baby...I'm going to name her Charlotte!" She wont listen when we try to tell her that she is not actually pregnant! I'm slightly worried we will have a problem when August comes, and mommy comes home with a new baby, and Lily still hasn't had one! I'm hoping either she'll drop the idea that she is pregnant, or realize she is just pretending, or that a baby doll will be enough to satisfy her Mommy urges!
As for the twins, they a quite a bit too young to understand what is happening. It's going to be a big change for them when we bring home the new baby! They are so use to being the babies, and getting first dibs on cuddle time with Mommy and Daddy. I know it's going to be a pretty tough transition with them not really understanding what is going on. I hope it isn't too hard on them! These are the things I worry about! at least they have each other! As it turns out the twins were perfectly placed in our little family!
We've got a busy month for doctors visits. I have to give blood for the quad screen next week (it's funny...I remember being so nervous about those results with Lily...like ridiculously nervous given my age and healthy family history! Now it just seems like a waste of time! I have no worries at all that it will come back as high risk for something! ) Then we have a doctors appointment for the twins later next week (Violet needs a weight check again to see if the Paula Deen diet is working for her!) Then the following week I have my regular doctors appointment, and then finally on March 7th we have our big ultrasound! I'm so excited for that one! We are just dying to find out the gender this time! (Funny, it was SO easy to wait till birth with the twins, but this time I am constantly wondering!) I have no real vibes either way this time, which is a first for me ( I KNEW Lily was a girl right away when we found out I was pregnant. With the twins I was sure we had a boy and a girl in there, which might be why it was easy to wait. Two weeks before they were born I started panicking that we didn't have enough girl clothes, and started getting very very strong feelings that it was 2 girls! ) It's very weird not having any vibes this time. I keep waiting for them to come! I do accidentally say "he" and "him" a lot, but I don't necessarily feel that way. Maybe it's harder for me to feel this time because we are so use to having girls that we have it in our mind that we will only have girls ( which, believe me, would be fine by me! I'm actually kinda hoping it's another girl!) What ever it is though, we will be so happy! If it's a boy, we get to experience something new! If it's a girl, we have the comfort of know exactly what we are doing, and I get to use all the adorable clothes we already have! Either way we win! I just can't wait to know! One more month!
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