Wow, 5 weeks? Really? I guess I really am pregnant. I’m sure I felt the baby having a giant spaz attack during dinner a few nights ago. Other than that, just little flutters that I think might be my little one but they are over so quick, I’m never totally sure. I’m growing bigger every day and I need to figure out some sort of gym pants situation. The current ones are starting to hurt and my yoga pants are too long for treadmills. Might be time to go to Target and get some man pants. Or maybe just some more yoga pants that aren’t super long. I’ve been a good girl, going to the gym and yoga class pretty regularly. My diet last week was atrocious and I paid the price. My pipes backed up pretty mightily from the burgers and pizza and I had to hit the Metamucil yesterday to try and get things moving again. I’m back on track and promise to stay away from pizza for a while. And that burger I had is definitely all I need for quite a while. Pooping is awesome. More pooping please.
Look! Here’s what my baby looks like right now:
We heard the baby’s heartbeat last week at the midwives and we chatted up a storm. I don’t really have much to talk about as far as my pregnancy goes, I feel fine, so we ended up chatting about our house. Next visit we get to schedule the 20 week ultrasound. I’m so excited about that. I can’t believe we’ll have the keys to our house by then.
I’ve started having mid back pain, this time on my good side. I have a bum floater rib somewhere around T11 on my right side but the pain this week is on my left side. I have been daydreaming about recliners. It will be nice to have my studio chair in the babies room just across the hall from us so that I can go sleep in the chair sometimes if my back is bothering me. Hopefully more yoga will help keep my back in shape.
It’s been so fun watching Tom’s excitement about our little creature. He’s pretty cute around other babies and likes to say “We’re going to have one of those.” And I no longer have to say “That’s a cute kid, let’s steal it.” We’ve been getting lots of goodies from friends too. We have a pretty kick ass high chair from Marc that converts to a rocker, and lots of clothes in various sizes from Monique. Can’t wait to get moved into our new house so we can look for a crib.
I’m still nervous about how huge I’m going to get but I really like my belly and I love being pregnant. I keep trying to take photos of myself to share but they always freak me out too much and I’m too embarrassed to share. Maybe later when there’s a more even baby to me ratio. I discovered today that I really can’t lift heavy things, my abdominal muscles and tendons do not like it Sam I am. So I am just making sure I put the moving box in the right place before I start filling it up with heavy books.