June 30th
I am 11 weeks 4 days pregnant and weighed 160.4lbs this morning
Boy have I been gaining weight! Ive gained 4.4lbs as of this morning. I haven’t been eating right, so I know Im gaining some fat unfortunately. Yesterday evening I ran 3 miles and it felt good. Im hoping to have a longer run of 4-5 miles on Sunday night. I purchased a tummy support today. Im hoping it helps! It is much wider than the ones you can buy at maternity stores. I managed to snag it slightly used from a online pregnancy and parenting bulletin board so I didn’t have a choice of sizes. The size I got is called ‘universal’ its supposed to fit dress size 6-14. Hopefully it’ll fit. Before getting pregnant I was a 12/14 but I get SO big! Im hoping it will last me until my race on December second. Ill be 32 weeks pregnant so that will be a lot of tummy to support. These support belts run $50-75 so I really don’t want to have to buy a second one just for the last month or two. Perhaps I can make an extension if needed. Ill have to check it out once it comes in the mail. Mine is very similar to this one, which looks like a great deal at under 40 bucks!
This morning I think I felt the baby move. I was laying in bed on my back and I could feel this light ‘rolling’ almost inside of me. I just laid there for the longest time trying to figure out if I was actually feeling baby or something else. Im fairly sure it was actually baby! This is SO early to feel this though, with my boys I didn’t feel them until my second trimester, somewhere around 15-18 weeks!!
June 19th
I am 10 weeks pregnant today! And weighed 158.8lbs this morning
My back is feeling a bit better today and the cramping isn’t as bad. Im guessing my insides and the baby are going through a growth spurt. I look bigger too, so I guess that’s where all of this discomfort has come from. Tonight I ran a couple of miles. Im really really slow.
At ten weeks pregnant my baby is classified as a fetus rather than an embryo and he or she is about 1-1.5 inches long from crown to bum and weighs about 4 grams. Even at this tiny size my baby is practicing swallowing and kicking up a storm even though I cant feel it yet. His or her fingernails should be developing around this time too! All of his or her vital organs are already completely formed and working! That is absolutly amazing! Right now though the baby’s head is disproportionally big to the rest of his or her body but in the coming months everything catches up and looks more baby like. From here on in the developments while amazing aren’t completely shocking as the development that has happend so far. Its astounding to think this little baby, who looks much like a baby now started as a couple of cells, which soon looked much like a tad pole, and then sort of an alien/tadpole and now a baby.
June 18th
I am 9 weeks 6 days pregnant and 159.0lbs this morning
Morning sickness is still going strong. Im less than thrilled about that, its actually been really bad today. I think I ate about 40 saltines with peanut butter. I don’t even particularly like saltines with peanut butter but they seemed to stop the room from spinning and my stomach from lurching with every breathe. I shouldn’t be complaining though because if it wasnt bad Id be worried about the well being of the baby, since yesterday I have been having a lot of lower back pain and cramping. Its really worrisome, I didn’t sleep well last night because of it, both because of the discomfort of the cramping and back ache but because I was worried that I may be miscarrying. 10 weeks is pretty late to miscarry but it isn’t unheard of, I guess at this point its just a wait and see what happens. I will be very relieved to hear this baby’s heartbeat or feel him or her start moving!
June 16th
I am 9 weeks 4 days pregnant and weighed 158.2lbs this morning. Wow did I eat a ton today, it was just bad. I wasnt particularly hungry but I was really stressed out. I have been working on my emotional eating but it looks like I still have a long way to go. A stiff drink probably would have helped but that will just have to wait until after the baby is born! Usually when I had days like this before I got pregnant Id get on the treadmill and pound out 6 or 7 miles to help burn that crap off, but last night my husband didn’t get home till about 6:30pm and went out to play poker around 8pm. Between getting dinner made and the kids fed I just didn’t have a moment to get a mile in. Tomorrow my weight will be way up Im sure.
June 15th
I am 9 weeks 3 days pregnant and weighed 158.0lbs this morning. All of my baby’s vital organs are formed and have begun to work! The baby is looking more like a baby now, the tail should have disappeared by now and his or her little fingers and toes have separated. Baby should be about two inches long now!
Last night I had a dream that I was pregnant with triplets. It was really odd, the way the dream went was I knew I was pregnant with twins and was delivering in an operating room. I had no problem delivering the two babies, both girls and then I felt the urge to push again and I figured it was the placenta but no, it was another baby! A boy! When I woke up I sort of laughed to myself because it was just so absurd!