18 Weeks

How far along: 18 weeks
Weight Gain: 8lbs according to the Drs. Scale :(
Stretch marks: No new ones yet
Belly Button: Innie
Sleep: Bout the same still getting up 2-3 times
Baby Movement: I am loving feeling the little flutters!!
Food Cravings. Still just carbs. My mom and I went shopping on Saturday and I finally got some chips and REAL Salsa. I have been wanting some of that for quite some time now but I don't guess people around here no how to make it.
Food Aversions: Coffee
Milestones: At 5 1/2 inches long and about 5oz Baby be is beginning to master the skills of yawning and hiccupping. And he/she now has its on unighue fingerprints on their fingers and toes.

17 Weeks

How Far Along: 17 weeks
Total Weight Gain: 5 lbs
Maternity Clothes: Belly Band and this week I went and bought a maternity shirt b/c I needed some more shirts that were long enough to cover the Belly Band
Stretch Marks: Still no new ones.
Belly Button: Innie
Sleep: Basically good I still get up a 2 or three times a night. Which I got up at least once a night for a bathroom run pre-pregnancy.
Baby Movement: We went out to eat yesterday for Breakfast.where I had biscuits, a  cinnamon roll, and French toast. I was sure I would go into a carb overload/ diabetic coma but Baby B must to have liked it b/c he/she was having a party all afternoon yesterday. It was AMAZING!
Food Cravings: Still and Kind of Bread
Food Aversions: Coffee
Looking forward To: Hearing the Heart Beat again this Thursday
Best Moment of the Week: Definitely feeling Baby B move
Milestones At 17 weeks Baby B is about the length of an orange/ 5 inches long/ or about the size of the palm of your hand, and weighs about 5oz. Body fat is beginning to form. This week baby B is practicing sucking and swallowing getting ready for it first meal. His/her heartbeat is now regulated by the brain, and air passages in its lungs have finished branching

17 weeks

16 Weeks

How Far Along: 16 weeks
Total Weight Gain: 4lbs
Maternity Clothes: Let me just say scrubs are awesome. Elastic!! I bought the Belly band last week and this past weekend when I went to put on regular jeans there was no Buttoning them!! So the belly band was a MUST!
Stretch Marks: No new ones yet
Belly Button: Innie
Sleep: Get up about 3 times a night for bathroom trips.
Baby movement: Thought that I have felt movement a few times but not real sure
Food Cravings: No official cravings yet but I do love carbs!! Especially A soft pretzel from Sam's
Food Aversions: Still don't like the smell of  Coffee
What I Miss: Nothing really I will tell you what I don't miss and that is the 1st trimester!!
Looking forward to: Hearing Baby B's Heartbeat again at the doctor next week
Milestones: This week Baby B is about the size of a Large pear 4-5 inches in length and weighs about 3-5 ounces.  Tiny bones in his or her ears are now in place making it possible for he or she to hear my voice. Skeletal and nervous systems are connected to allow baby to coordinate movement. Facial muscle make it possible for Baby B to squint frown and try other facial expressions. Back muscles are strengthening allowing baby to straighten their posture a little.  Baby B now has eyelashes and can move it's eyes from side to side and perceive light

First Trimester

Weight Gain: 3lbs during the 1st trimester.
Stretch Marks: Well lets just start this whole thing out by saying Thanks to the wonderful thing called puberty I already have Stretch marks!!! But I am lathering up in Cocoa butter and Mother's Friend nightly in order to hopefully prevent any new addititons
Belly Button: Innie
Sleep:  The "morning sickness" was at night so My sleep was Defiantly effected!
Food cravings. I lived off of Cheese toast and Peanut butter and crackers
Food Aversions: Just about anything! Especially  Milk, The smell of coffee, and oh my goodness coleslaw ( I will explain that later) oh and the Grocery store.
Odd things:  If there is one thing I have figured out from the books it is If it is odd and new just blame it on the pregnancy hormones. I sneeze a lot!!! I probably sneeze more in a week than I have sneezed in my whole life put together. The Pregnancy Brain is defiantly for real! And I can't hold on to anything.

I guess right at about my 6 week mark. I decided for supper one night it would be really good to have BBQ sandwiches with cole slaw. (even typing it right now makes me a little queasy )  I was sick all night LONG and the next day. That is when the sickness began, and for about the first week and a half it was all day!! Lemon heads and Sour worms were my best friends.  After that it was mostly at night I mean the minute the sun went down I would get nauseated. I am very thankful for that b/c being queasy on my Job well lets just say you can't quite do your job if gross things make you sick. So for the next 5 or 6 weeks I lived off of Cheese toast, Grits and peanut butter crackers. And would do just about nothing but sleep or lay on the couch. One Saturday I just broke out in tears, Zach was so confused about what was wrong I said " I don't like being lazy" I am a girl who will stand up to watch TV b/c it burns more calories (weird I know) and have been called a Gym Nazi by my husband on multiple occasions.  Now even I didn't have the energy to walk in a store! ( Thankfully that part is over).

We're Pregnant

Sunday Morning June 27, 2010 My alarm went off at 0600 as it always did in order for me to get up and take my Temperature. As I am sure many others have awaken at a certain time every morning for months tried to find the Thermometer under your pillow without moving or talking  " b/c that we give an inaccurate reading of you BBT" Well finally we had perfected it, Zach would set the alarm on his side of the bed, and the thermometer was laying on a chair beside the bed so that all I had to do was stick my arm out and get it. Sounds ridiculous I know but I have had others tell me they are quite sure they have swallowed a few thermometers taking their temp so many time while half asleep.

          Well on this particular morning my temperature had remained elevated for almost a month so I decided to muster up the courage to take a pregnancy test. I say courage b/c I had been putting it off for a couple of days (well about a week) for fear that it would be negative and then the hope that my temperature was elevated b/c I was pregnant would be gone. So I took one and sure enough within seconds two pink lines began to appear. I ran back into the bed room jumped on Zach who was in a DEAD sleep screaming " I think we're pregnant! I am not real sure but I am pretty sure there are two pink lines on that stick" so when he finally figured out what was going on he went into the bathroom to take a look and in shock agreed with me that there were defiantly 2 pink lines!  So in order to be sure at 0600 on Sunday morning, bed heads and all we went to Wal-Mart to buy more Pregnancy test this time the digital ones so there would be no doubt!