12 Weeks Pregnant : UPDATE!

Since announcing our pending arrival of our newest little peanut in eutero (original post HERE), I haven’t said much about it. I wanted to wait until we first heard the heartbeat before I took the plunge and told everyone. Well, we told everyone just before Christmas and just yesterday I heard the FIRST heartbeat of this baby.

Nothing ever compares to hearing that. Isn’t it just amazing how soon you can become attached to someone you haven’t even met yet. I just love my doctor too. I remember this when I was pregnant with Adalynn. Every time he put the monitor thing on my stomach, as soon as he heard the heartbeat he would just smile. *love*

He said this time, “wow, a very strong heartbeat!” Makes a mama proud! He found it right away.

For those of you who have been asking, here is my first pregnant belly pic. Not showing much yet, however things are starting to pop over the last few days. I think the Lord was just holding out so that I could fit into my bridesmaid dress for my sister’s wedding on January 1st! I swear the day after the wedding my stomach just started popped. At 12 weeks, I am still in my regular clothes.  But, I think that may be short lived…I see maternity clothes in my near future!!

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Here is an update on my pregnancy so far. I loved how Jaime (fellow SIMPLE blogger) kept us all up to speed 🙂 Thanks for the idea Jaime, I am copying you!

How Far Along: 12 weeks

Total Weight Gain in 12 weeks: 1.9 lbs.  Darn Christmas cookies, New Year goodies, Wedding goodies!!  🙂

Sleep: Sleeping pretty good. I’m actually still able to sleep on my stomach, so that’s nice since I am stomach sleeper. I know, for all you chiropractors out there…stomach sleeping is BAD! I know, I know…

Best Moments for these weeks: Hearing the heartbeat for the first time!

Gender: Not sure! I don’t want to find out, but my husband does. We have 8 weeks yet to battle that one out.  I’ll blog more about this later 🙂

Food Craving: lemon anything…but that is whether I’m pregnant or not. So, I’m not really sure. Actually, I just got these AMAZING Sunkist fruit gems. We were at Buy Buy Baby, I saw them and HAD to have them. Brought back memories since these have been around forever. And, they are pretty hard to find.

What I Miss: The strength I had and endurance when running.  I get pretty winded now while running.  But that’s ok 🙂

Looking Forward To: Feeling the baby move for the first time

Symptoms:

*A little nauseous here and there. Sometimes at night I will just lay on the couch ready to throw up. I don’t actually do it, although sometimes I think I would feel better if I did.

*Migraines. Oh Migraines. UGH! Hoping I’ll be at the tail end of this now too that I’m at 12 weeks.

*Tired…but starting to get more energy. I really only had a few bad days when I was SO tired I just had to lay and watch a movie with Lili when Adalynn was sleeping. Overall, I’m very thankful!

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