Baby Updates

I have been informed that I need to update my blog about baby more.....so here is the latest!

I am now 12 weeks along, and I wore a bellaband for the first time today! That is kind of exciting, but at the same time, means these pants wouldn't button this morning. This afternoon I am going to my first prenatal water aerobics class. I am excited to meet some other pregnant ladies ....even though I do have 2 pregnant sisters and several pregnant friends.

Baby French is the size of a medium shrimp, which is funny because at an open house for work, all these people were eating shrimp and I could not look at the shrimp or breathe, because if I were to smell them, I would have gagged! This is the end of my first trimester! I am starting to feel a bit better, but am struggling with headaches. I guess its common if you are already prone to migraines (Me!) to get a lot of headaches. I have a cute "belly book" journal, where I am journaling all about my pregnancy. Peanut butter has been a big craving, PB on ritz, bread or toast. Or apples. Chicken nuggets has been the other one. Poor Ryan, he will do anything for me, including eating chicken nuggets 3 nights in a row for dinner. He laughs everytime I eat them. I don't normally eat chicken nuggets, so it mystifies me as to why I want them all the time! The last week hot dogs have been high on my list. I can't eat hot dogs from just anywhere, because they have to be cooked superwell when you are preggo, but my Dad BBQ'd me one last weekend, and Ryan and I had turkey dogs for dinner last night. Maybe tonight too...

I have lots of baby books, many of which are quite terrifying, and some which nicely explain away all my worries and weird symptoms. Night time has been really hard, because my mouth is so dry, I drink all night and then I have to get up every hour, and I am usually way too hot, and I don't get much sleep. This worries me because it seems like it will only get worse! And here we had finally gotten all the animals to sleep through the night....I know I know, I will be ready for a baby that is up all night!

My Mom and I looked at all of these old wives tales about how to tell gender....most point to a girl. And I consulted the Chinese lunar test (which guarantees 50% accuracy, lol) and it says girl. Ryan and i are certainly happy with either! We find out towards the end of July, when Ryan returns from the police academy. Then we can start decorating a baby room!

That is all I can think of for now!!