23 weeks...

It's been an interesting week.  The re-org at work is under way.  I'm grateful I'm on the winning side right now.  Hoping it stays that way.  With a baby on the way and going on maternity leave I really don't want to have a new boss.  It would be easy to be forgotten when I'm not around by someone new.  The other thing is we are adopting a kitten.  Amelia is so sad and clingy.  She really needs a companion and better to do it now before I get too uncomfortable and the baby arrives.  I know a new baby is going to suck all my time from Amelia and if she has a playmate she may be okay.  We found one today and we'll be picking him up on Tuesday morning.

The best thing that happened this morning is J got to feel the baby give a good kick.  It was early this morning and I felt her kick.  I asked J if he wanted to feel her.  He put his had on my belly and boom she gave him a kick as if to say "Mr... I'm here.  It was so awesome.

Symptoms I felt this week:

• Breasts still hurt
• Tired
• Belly popping out
• Sciatica pain but not too bad
• Very full belly 
• Baby has some good kicks and now J can feel them too :)
• Can't sleep a full night due to bladder needing to be emptied.  

21 weeks....

This week has been uneventful.  Just trying to do some planning. My co-workers have pressured me into doing a registry so that's done.  Babies need so much.  My sister and Mom are buying us a travel system.  I was initially upset because they weren't taking into account what we wanted but we went to see what they are going to purchase and J and I are both happy with it.

Symptoms I felt this week:

• Breasts still hurt
• Tired
• Starting to really look pregnant
• Sciatica pain
• Still feeling cramps and back aches on and off.  Stomach is feeling taut sometimes.  
• I'm starting to feel the baby move.  I know when she's kicking my bladder and sometimes I feel something like a gas bubble in my belly but it goes away

17 weeks...

So, we had our OB appointment last Wed when I was officially 17 weeks.  This app was only to listen to the heartbeat.  With it came lots of kicking from the little one.  I still don't feel the kicking yet but hoping soon.  On Friday I started having a sore throat and feeling bad.  By nightfall, it was a full blown cold,  I've been miserable all weekend and even now.  All I can take is Tylenol.  Whoop dee do.  I might as well take nothing.  Well, it's for the greater good, right?  I just keep trying to tell myself that over and over again.


Symptoms I felt this week:

• Breasts don't hurt as much since I bought bras that fit
• Tired but probably because of this nasty old cold
• Stomach looks a bit bigger.  
• Sneezing and coughing from this crazy cold