Looking at the glass half full or half empty? With wine and pregnancy it can be looked at both ways. Most times people usually only talk about the happy go lucky parts of these big times in our lives, and most the time it's the fairy tale version. I love those thoughts but I am also very much a realist. I have a sarcastic side to me that is often blunt and to the point. For me, I like to find humor in the big moments and talk on some of the real issues rather than sugar coat all the events in our lives. It's real that way and also fun. I love the not so perfect, crazy beautiful life we've been given. So pregnancy, like the glass of wine, can be looked at half full: the excitement, our first sonogram, decorating the nursery, dreaming of the sweetness! But lets face it, pregnancy is also half empty: all the stinkin' changes in your body and not to mention the fact that you can neither have a glass of half full nor half empty of wine ;)...leaving you with little to aide in the headaches. Mama said there'd be days like this....
....so perhaps it's neither half full, nor half empty but JUST RIGHT!
8 weeks: baby the size of a green olive
9 weeks: baby the size of a kumquat
10 weeks: baby the size of a lime
11 weeks: Baby the size of a plum
How far along? 8-11 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: .6 of a pound (current weight 136.6)
Maternity clothes? none
Stretch marks? Nope
Sleep: getting better at sleeping in the nights.
Best moment this week: week 11 we had our first sonogram and expected due date of Feb 10th!
Have you told family and friends: Yes
Miss Anything? still thinking of that wine
Movement: No
Food cravings: Cereal is still on the daily and also cranberry juice
Anything making you queasy or sick: no, chicken wasn't tasting so great to me when we were camping though.
Have you started to show yet: I believe the little bump has moved up a little more my friends
Gender prediction: our gut still says girl but here are some of the old wives tale predictions:
Total weight gain/loss: .6 of a pound (current weight 136.6)
Maternity clothes? none
Stretch marks? Nope
Sleep: getting better at sleeping in the nights.
Best moment this week: week 11 we had our first sonogram and expected due date of Feb 10th!
Have you told family and friends: Yes
Miss Anything? still thinking of that wine
Movement: No
Food cravings: Cereal is still on the daily and also cranberry juice
Anything making you queasy or sick: no, chicken wasn't tasting so great to me when we were camping though.
Have you started to show yet: I believe the little bump has moved up a little more my friends
Gender prediction: our gut still says girl but here are some of the old wives tale predictions:
Heart rate above 140 = girl {baby's was 160}
Mayan Calendar odd/even= boy
Chinese Calendar = girl
Craving Sweets = girl
No morning sickness = boy
Sleep on left side = boy
Have headaches = boy
Labor Signs: No, not there yet
Belly Button in or out? In
Wedding rings on or off? On
Happy or Moody most of the time: happy with some headaches
Weekly Wisdom: Enjoy the moments now, because time goes so fast.
Looking forward to: working on the nursery & more doc appts to know all about you!
Labor Signs: No, not there yet
Belly Button in or out? In
Wedding rings on or off? On
Happy or Moody most of the time: happy with some headaches
Weekly Wisdom: Enjoy the moments now, because time goes so fast.
Looking forward to: working on the nursery & more doc appts to know all about you!
Nicknames so far: Peanut (from your first sonogram, you were the perfect little peanut)
See!!!!
PEANUT!
1 comment:
We are very similar in the "keeping it real" category. I think you hit the nail on the head that some of the moments are half full and other half empty and finding peace in the in between is real. No need to sugar coat life. With both my pregnancies I had a hard time giving up some of the things I enjoy like wine, skiing, and sushi. Its normal and its real. As you know,making a human is no small feat and raising them is an even bigger one. You need a glass of wine for these things:-) and thank goodness after they are cooked and on the outside you can. Glad babies first picture debut went well and you are marching to the beat of the second trimester. Sure can't wait to meet that little Hollingworth. Love you!
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