Turner Blogcast Station: Week #18

18 weeks

Baby Boy Turner is due on November 3rd, 2016! This pregnancy has so far been very similar to Callie's, except that symptoms happened waaaay earlier. I had all-day nausea and morning sickness starting around 6 weeks, and I started showing a little baby bump around 10-11 weeks along. I haven't had any strong food aversions or cravings, although chicken was a little touch and go there for awhile, and it's still not my preferred food, to Bryann's dismay.

It's been helpful throughout this pregnancy to go back and look at my posts about my pregnancy with Callie. My memories have not been as accurate as my recordings, and I'm so glad I wrote about what I was feeling and thinking as I was experiencing everything! According to my memories, my pregnancy was care-free and la-di-da, when in reality, I had similar bouts of anxiety, and physical discomfort.

Now that I'm well in to my 2nd trimester though, I'm feeling much less anxious, and they days are passing more quickly. We had an early genetics test, so we are comforted that there were no genetic abnormalities detected, and as a bonus, we got to find out that we were having a boy well before our anatomy scan!

I had convinced Bryann we were having another girl, so it's been a bit of an adjustment for us, but we're both really excited about having a baby boy, and Callie is SO sweet and talks about her baby brother all the time!

What Baby T has been up to

Kicking, and growing, and making me feel wonderful to be aware of him all the time.
Baby boy is the size of a turnip (growing in to a bell pepper) this week and is measuring 5 oz, 5in., which says more about my size and weight gain, considering I look like I have a small melon in there... Maybe we'll find out at the ultrasound that he's actually enormous, and I haven't just been eating too many hamburgers...
His skeleton has been changing from soft cartilage to bone, hearing is developing (which explains why I felt him kick pretty actively whenever we were at a Broadway show last week).
He's also in the middle of a growth spurt, so I can expect to look more and more pregnant over the next few weeks. I guess that means I NEED to keep eating hamburgers, so baby boy can keep growing!

Pregnancy symptoms include:

There seems to be a very specific window of time where I'm nauseated. When we were in NYC last week, I didn't feel nauseous once! But I was sleeping in until 9am. We get home, and as soon as I'm up at 7am again, I resume my morning routine of dry-heaving for about a minute. I thought I was over the nausea... but alas... true "morning sickness" is my curse.
I have to pee constantly. I was up 3 times last night. Before I was pregnant with Callie, I thought the peeing was just bc the baby was on top of your bladder. But nope! It is my constant companion.
I'm also walking slower and out of breath easier than when not pregnant. I even walk slower than Bryann now, which is really saying something. He also has to push me up stairs already, which is only mildly embarrassing for only being 18 weeks along.

What I miss/What I'm looking forward to:

It has been stupidly hot all the time, everywhere I go. I miss having a nice, ice-cold, Portlandia-style artisan beer after work on my deck, while Callie plays on the porch or in the grass, and just relaxing. Alcohol will forever be on the list of what I miss during pregnancy!
I'm looking forward to my ultrasound appointment on June 13th. We already know the gender, and we are already fairly confident that there are no genetic abnormalities. But I love checking in and seeing those little arms and legs, and seeing him move around! We're so in love already. <3

... and since I'm not doing blog posts for the previous weeks, here are photos from week 15 and week 12. :-)