18 weeks!

1. How Far Along? 18 weeks exactly

2. Total Weight Gain/Loss? Either 8 or 10lbs. It's been fluctuating.

3. Maternity Clothes? Still rocking the Gap Always Skinny jeans, and they're still saggy in the bum. Ugh! Other than that I've worn a pair of black trouser maternity pants from Gap to work. All regular shirts. 

4. Gender? I'm still thinking girl, T is thinking boy. We'll find out on Tuesday!! What an awesome little Valentine's Day surprise! We have our gender-reveal party Tuesday night with our parents. More on that later. ;-)

5. Movement? I think I'm feeling little flutters but I'm not sure. It usually happens after I've eaten dinner and am laying on the couch. It feels like a rising bubble I guess. Can't wait to feel real pokes and jabs.

6. Sleep? I'm starting to have to sleep more on my side than belly because my chest gets so sore by morning, not to mention that my belly is getting bigger!

7. What I miss? Being able to wear everything in my closet. Picking out outfits stinks because I'm so limited. I'm still in that in-between stage where I'm afraid I just look fat (not pregnant) in certain things.

8. Cravings? Still loving clementines. I'm also eating cereal at least once a day. I was on a frosted mini-wheats kick, but currently I'm loving Raisin Bran. Weird because I used to hate the raisins!

9. Symptoms? I'm out of breath a lot, even when I'm not doing much. I feel like I can't get a deep breath. My chest is rock hard and HUGE! I'm still tired too.

10. Best moment this week? Well this was technically last week but I had my Dr.'s appointment and my mom  came with me.  She was able to hear the baby's heartbeat for the first time which was very special.  She was so emotional that my mid-wife gave her the tissues she had to wipe the gel off my belly to my mom for her to dry her eyes. Sweet.


Since I missed blogging 17 weeks, I still wanted to post pictures.  These were taken at 17w2d.

Looking Large! LOL!