Some Preggo Talk

I got a lot of flack this weekend at work from women who told me I don't look pregnant/I'm not gaining enough weight. Being pregnant is so stressful! My concern of the moment was that I don't want another sonogram at 20 weeks. That would make it my fourth for this pregnancy. That's A LOT. Don't even google it. It just makes me have nightmares. Googling things while pregnant just makes you want to crawl in a dark box and do nothing for nine months except take a pre-natal vitamin and eat three meals a day. There's so much information out there scaring me about choices I make during pregnancy. So my dilemma is: because I'm not gaining that much weight, should I go ahead and get the 20 week sonogram even though everything looked great on the 16 week one? I'm sure my doctor will tell me that my weight gain is fine. I feel like it's fine. I don't remember gaining that much weight with Emma. . . and what's different this time around is I'm picking up 22 pounds of baby a million times a day. That's calorie burning, right? So maybe that's it. Plus, I'm in that part of pregnancy where I get full really easily and so don't scarf down/lick the plate clean like I do when I'm not pregnant.

Some differences with this pregnancy:

Not as nauseous. I remember popping zofran every 6 hours from week 8 to week 20 last time.

Not as tired. But I also don't think I have the time to be tired. With the first kid, you have time to just lay around the house. . . there's no responsibility.

I can't think of anything else right now. I know there's other stuff.

On another note, let me tell you about this blog: http://mamabirth.blogspot.com/

I love, love, love her blog. She posts a birth story every week and does other posts on pregnancy related things except for the last two weeks she's been out because she just had her fourth baby. I used to think having a baby in a birthing center or at home was an outrageous/crunchy idea. Now, I think it all has to do with educating yourself and having an open mind. I don't think these are bad or weird options anymore. In fact, maybe it will happen in the future. I want to try to labor at home as much as I can with this go around. (That is hoping that I get to that point. Obviously if I have to be induced again or have any issues, then my plan goes out the window :-)). . . . Anywho, her latest post is about her fourth birth and eating her placenta for the first time. She cooked it and ground it up and sprinkled it in her orange juice every morning. She talks about how she didn't have "the third day meltdown" or any postpartum depression like she had had with her previous pregnancies. I totally had the third day meltdown!! And unfortunately the third day coexists with them sending you HOME. I bawled the whole way home. My hormones were so insane. Where I was totally grossed out by this before (and still am a little) I'm actually open to the idea of putting my placenta in pill form and taking one a day. Hey, if they help with the mood swings, why not??

Gosh, this time around is so different because I am so different.

Here is my favorite bedding so far for a little boy's room but don't get too attached because Adam hasn't come around to it yet: http://www.potterybarnkids.com/products/jackson-nursery-bedding/?pkey=bboys-nursery-bedding

I'm very into whales right now!!! lol