21 weeks

21 weeks, 1 day

Weight: 133.4 lbs, still gaining steadily!
Symptoms: Nausea, stretching, feeling full. This week I had a nasty cold/cough that George brought back with him. I had a really stuffy nose, swollen sinuses and a gross cough. I was able to fight it off but had a vomiting episode from so much phlegm. 

Sleep: Sleep was not the best this week thanks to the cold. It was hard to breathe and the constant coughing kept me up at night.

Cravings/Aversions: Still just craving apples! Still some food aversions and no strong cravings except fruit.

Workouts: None!

Doctor Visits: I had my follow up to the anatomy scan with my midwife at 21w5d. George was able to come to that and meet the midwife finally. He loved her! All the results from the anatomy scan were normal and good. No issues at all with baby's growth or my body. Great news! Since George hadn't heard the heartbeat yet, the midwife let him listen to it. She also did another ultrasound so we could look at baby again. Baby was squirmy as usual, sucking its thumb, chewing and rubbing its eyes while we watched. So neat to see so much detail while baby is still cooking!

it's a...

...GIRL! 

20 weeks

20 weeks

20 weeks, 2 days

Weight: 132.4 lbs still gaining, finally!!
Symptoms: nausea, stretching, weird pounding heart

Sleep: sleep is still good

Cravings/Aversions: craving apples and fruit, that's about it! Still aversions to most foods

Workouts: none, still not feeling good!

Doctor Visits: at 20 weeks I took another trip to the ER. I was having symptoms of high blood pressure along with some upper body pain and an erratic heart rate. At the ER my blood pressure and EKG came back normal, even though my heart rate was really high. Basically they told me they have no idea what was wrong, but it wasn't anything horrible. At 20w5d we went for the anatomy scan. An hour long ultrasound where they take measurements of everything and we also found out the sex. As soon as we are able to tell the girls, we will announce the sex of baby! Baby was crazy active the entire ultrasound, it was really hard for the tech to get good images because baby wouldn't sit still. She said it was one of the most active babies she'd seen! Next week we have the follow up with the midwife.

19 weeks

19w2d

19w3d Halloween, white trash pregnant lady (no, I didn't actually drink lol)

Weight: 129.8 lbs, still going up but not quite back to my pre pregnancy weight
Symptoms: Still some nausea, but no vomiting most of the week. I had a decent vomit free streak until 19w5d when I vomited again. Then I started with some new symptoms that felt like high blood pressure and an erratic heart rate. Also lots of growing pains

Sleep: Sleep has been ok, but I've been waking up early and have trouble going back to sleep. I also was kept awake all night at 19w6d due to throbbing pain in my upper body and nausea

Cravings/Aversions: Starting to have some cravings, but took a huge step back and have been so sick that I have aversions to eating anything.

Workouts: No workouts, still too sick

Doctor Visits: No doctor visits