21 Week Update

How far along? 21 weeks (The size of a spaghetti squash or a pomegranate, depending on if you are looking at my app or Matt's. Either way, a little over a pound and eight inches long.)

Total weight gain/loss: Up five pounds down from pre-pregnancy weight.
 
Maternity clothes: Nope.  Still just making it through for those hours everyday where it isn't appropriate to wear stretchy pants and too big t-shirts.
 
Have you told family and friends?  Everybody knows now :)

Have you started to show yet? Most everyone that knows says they can see something there now but I'm not showing to the point where, if you didn't already know, you would suspect.  You would just think I was a little thick around the middle ;)

Sleep:  It comes and goes. But I am definitely sleeping better since our Birmingham Dr appt!

Best moment this week: The mornings where it is just the three of us continue to be my favorite.  We have downloaded a little playlist of classical music and some songs we just want her to hear and we always play them for her, M talks to her, we talk about her and recently we ordered her this book and I can't wait to add her Daddy reading that to her to our daily routine.  Then when she gets here we'll move to reading her this book by the same author.

Miss Anything? A time when I wasn't constantly talking about food.  Also, weirdly enough, I just recently started feeling like I miss a little the time when the pregnancy was a secret.  It's funny because I felt like I couldn't wait to tell people but now I miss, just a little, that really fun, special time when just our little family that we have made knew.  Weird. 

Movement: I feel her everyday.  M has felt her twice (pressing really hard when she is active before I start moving in the mornings) but I could never have imagined how much I would love that feeling.  Completely ridiculous I KNOW, but I am already sad over the fact that she WON'T be in there soon.  I won't be able to protect her, talk to her whenever I want and have those special moments where I can feel her. 

Food cravings: Nothing particular besides, you know, ANYTHING that holds no nutritional value, is loaded with sugar and/or preservatives. 

Anything making you queasy or sick? Nope!

Gender prediction: GIRL.  According to the sonogram the Chinese Gender Calender and every single old wives tale was WRONG!  (Refer to my earlier posts!)

Labor Signs: Nope.

Symptoms: I feel so good right now that it would just be wrong of me to complain.