16w 4d, and 1 week until Christmas Eve!

I'm a day late this week, I took a sick day yesterday because I woke up feeling pretty nasty. Stomach was off a little and just really tired. I had a great 4 hour 'nap' with my kitty, and felt a million times better when I woke up this morning. It's amazing what a single day can do for you. I mean I probably could have come in yesterday but I would have been pretty much useless for the rest of the week, this way I feel re energized and hope to be very productive for the rest of the week.

One of the funny discoveries this week was a new bra size! lol Now I have to preface this by saying that I was a VERY flat chested person for a very long time. I probably could have went all the way through high school without wearing one. I went to university as a 32AA (that would be an 'almost a'), and it wasn't until the summer before my 3rd year that I finally made it to 32B. So I've had a hard time excepting that I'm not a small chested person anymore, as over the past few years I've slowly crept all the way up to a C. Not suprisingly, over the past couple of months even those bra's were starting to get tight. So this weekend I had to make a purchase I never thought I would make, 36D! lol It is really funny to tell you the truth, and these new couple of bras I've bought are amazingly comfortable!

I still have quite a bit of shopping to do, and am thinking of using banked time on Monday and Tuesday so that I can hit the stores while they aren't too busy. But we did get our tree up (much to our kitty's delight), and I am feeling in the holiday spirit. I'm really excited to go home next week and see all the family and my friends. Also just really excited to have some time off to just enjoy things.

First prenatal class

So we survived our first prenatal class. This was just kind of a general intro class, we'll continue with the other ones in March/April. It was cool to be in a room with other couples who are all around the same stage as us, it was funny to exchange stories etc. The funniest thing was when they split the husbands/wives up and had us answer some questions separately, the men just loved that.

My favorite part of the class was when they passed around little life like models of the fetus at different stages. I can't believe how big our baby is already, crazy! They were even weighted the same and everything, too bad I couldn't have one of those at home.

Greg did pretty well, he was a little distracted at times, but he made up for it on the drive home. We were discussing whether or not we should change the night of our classes so that we could be with friends of ours. I said that I thought he would want to be in a class with his friend, he responded with "I'm not having a baby with him". I thought that was pretty sweet. For all the times he pisses me off, he always comes back with something like that.

Oh, one more thing. We started trying to come up with names this week. So we both made lists, 20 boys, and 20 girls each, then exchanged lists. Not a single name matched up! This is going to be difficult!

2 weeks from today is Christmas Day!!

2 Weeks until Christmas!

Another week has really flown by. It's amazing how when I started this blog it seemed like it took forever for just one week to go by, now it seems like I'm constantly updating. I'm really going to try and stick to the once a week entry though (we'll see how that works over the holidays!), because I'm not keeping a written journal, which is something I normally do, so when all of this is over I'll want to print this out so I can have a copy to keep.

So this past week included a visit to the Dr. . I went by myself this week, and everything went pretty normally, pee in a cup, weighed myself (up 2 lbs from starting weight). Then I asked her about the increased heart rate/light headiness. She said it was completely normal and just due to the increased blood volume in the body. I will just have to take it easy when changing positions, and also making sure to keep up good nutrition (gotta work on that!) When she checked my blood pressure it was low (104) so she said that was part of the problem as well. We heard babies heart beat, very strong and easy to find, it was 140bpm, such a great sound! She also asked me whether or not I had signed up for pre natal classes, which I hadn't, but I did yesterday. We'll have one class now (tomorrow night) and then the other 6 classes will be in March and April. She also asked if I had thought about my birth plan...uh no, was I supposed to? Guess I should do a little more reading!

Also did some shopping last week, okay quite a bit, and not of the Christmas variety. I have felt so much better being in comfy clothes for the past week, makes life much easier. Although from this weeks picture I don't think I grew that much, in the evenings it sure if nice to not be sitting here with my pants unbuttoned!

Getting very excited for Christmas vacation. I've been thinking about it and I think I'm going to take a full two weeks off. It will give me a chance to get a lot more done around that house, that I'm sure will get a lot more difficult as the months go by, and it will just be a really nice break. There will be some friends around who I will want to visit with, and it will give me a chance to get my hair cut an other things that always get put to the side this time of year.

Very excited to be able to say I'm 4 months pg after this weekend, but crazy as well, where has the time gone? Speaking of time, I have got to get going on the Christmas shopping!

15w 3d

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So I guess this day has become my traditional belly pic/update day. Seems to be working out so I think I'll stick to it! I can't believe my bare belly pic! lol The clothed one is the way I feel I look, I really didn't think there was that much growth going on, I mean I know my clothes are tighter, but yikes!

I did actually suck it up and went to buy some clothes last night. I got a few pairs of pants, some long sleeve t's and a sweater. I actually ordered some things from ebay over the past week as well, but I honestly couldn't wait any longer. I was getting sick of walking out of the house feeling like I looked so gross. The shirt I'm wearing in the picture is actually a shirt from Thyme, a now and after shirt, so it will give me some room as the time goes on. One issue was the length of pants. I did find a pair of dress pants at Thyme that I'll be able to wear with heels but everything else is pointing towards flats for the next 6 months or so.

I got a lovely surprise this morning. After feeling great for the past couple of weeks, I had to run out of bed to throw up this morning. No idea where that came from, just a friendly reminder that things are still moving along down there I guess. I actually have my next appointment on Thursday, hopefully hear the heart beat again, otherwise just a regular check up. I have a few things to check in on, like the light headed/racing heart thing I've been getting every once in a while. As well as a (literal) pain in my butt. Thinking I'm going to have to check out a massage therapist to get that looked at. According to my home scale I'm up 1lb, so we'll see what her scale says.

That about sums things up I think. I'll likely have a quick update after my appointment on Thursday. Can't believe it's only 3 weeks until Christmas! woohoo!

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