Now you see me, now you don't

My daughter has now gotten used to the swelling belly. I have put on 14 pounds and am 19 weeks in. It makes me cringe when I think of the 25 pounds I lost with weight watchers just prior to getting pregnant.

My daughter does the usual hiding her head between your legs.. She did it yesterday and I had to laugh as she looked up and then completely disappeared under my bump. She then looked back and laughed and hid under the bump again.

She knows how to make me feel good even when I feel like a whale!!

My hips are really painful swell. I'm noticing that as I get larger my hips flare up more.

Lead implants

So last night some plastic surgeon must have snuck into my bedroom and I stead of giving my boobs a bit of a lift they went and filled them with lead!!

I took off my bra tonight and WHOOMPH! They flopped down and good god did they hurt. To add insult to injury they look like spaniels ears. Every time I go to a fairground and see the arcades with the water balloons hung on a nail that you have to throw darts at I run like hell for fear that people may think I am part of the stall!

They are so heavy now and veiny. Really not a good look. As I am sitting in bed typing this they are slowly migrating to my armpits. GROSE!!!! Why doesn't pregnancy make them nice and full? I know I will NOT be saying that once the baby is here as they will be full of milk.

Well I am going to bed now and just hoping my boobs don't fall out the side of the bed as they will surely take me with them.

Night all! X

Baby brain.......it does exist!!!!

I am really having a hard time distinguishing new year from new York. I have had very little sleep this week and the baby brain effect is starting to show. I literally can't remember a thing!!! I struggle to recall what I did on the weekend, what I ate in a day, who I spoke to. I repeat stories ALL the time to the same accommodating people who just pat me on the head and say "ahhhh bless"! It's embarrassing.

I stare at my computer screen scared to do anything for fear of forgetting what I just did. I am amazed I get home in one piece really.

I sometimes catch myself just rubbing my belly and staring blankly into space. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a bit of drewl on the side of my mouth.

My sleep issues are no where near as bad as last time but still lingering like a bad fart!!!

Let's see if watching star wars on blu ray will help. Gotta love it!!!!!!!!

Where the heck did that go then?

Around the 4th month of my last pregnancy I started to see the linea nigra. That funny line you get down your belly. It became really dark and it even stayed after pregnancy. I still had it just before I got pregnant this time.

Now that I am pregnant again it has just vanished! I mean totally gone!!! What the heck is going on??? Did I scrub too hard with my exfoliating gloves? It is so weird.

It's funny I was kind of attached to it as it reminded me of carrying my daughter. Will it ever come back? Who knows.... But I will let you know if it does.

Buying alcohol. .......AWKWARD

I don't know what it is about buying alcohol when you are pregnant but I went to Wegmans to buy some Guinness for my daddy so it was clearly not for me! I got to the register and while the checkout girl was lovely I felt like the rest of the line was staring at me. It just felt so naughty.

Stage Fright

All you fello preggos will be with me on this one.  It is monstrous to go to the bathroom for a number 2 right now as we are taking that many iron supplements that I am practically excreting iron pokers right now.  Sorry I forgot to warn that this one is all about bowel movements lol!

I went to the loo just now and it was taking a little encouragement.  I felt like that scene from Austin Powers where Austin gets attacked in the toilet but a fellow loo visiter thinks he is just straining.  I was just waiting for someone to yell "show that turd who's boss"

I needed some quiet time to focus and breathe through it.  Well, in comes another person who selfishly doesnt choose to go to an empty cubicle further along, no, they plonk themselves right next to me.  2 seconds later another lady comes to my other side.  What the heck.  Can they not see I am trying to focus.  I felt my eyes boring into their shoes and burning their toes to make them get a move on.

I was frozen stuck whilst crowning waiting for one of them to just hurry up and flush so that I could give it my all. 

There goes the flush and "HURRAH!!!!!!" success!!!!

Needless to say.  That turd knew who was boss!

Wonderful weightlessness

Today we had a pool party at a neighbors house. Once I finally squeezed into my maternity bathing suit (with the assistance of some talc and a shoe horn) I got over there as quick as I could and whether my daughter was ready for it or not I went straight in the pool.

It was WONDERFUL! I felt so weightless. My bump just floated around like a drifting iceberg. My daughter had a whale of a time until she did a number 2 that went all up her back. Luckily our house was only over the road.

I then got back and straight back in the pool. The little one must have felt it quite soothing as the baby went to sleep and only woke up after my 4th cup of root beer. I am starting to get some little stretch marks so I am lubing myself up every night to try and minimize the chance of my belly looking like a map of the Nile Delta.

I am now in the bath again and am loving the heat on my back. The 100 degree heat that is. I can hear my midwife in my head. I have a pool thermometer to make sure I am a good girl!

Night all!!!!