Pregnancy Weeks 13/14/15
Hi Everyone! Happy Thursday!
I'm 16 weeks pregnant today. Saw my OB last week too, and all is well.
How I'm feeling: Better for sure, better all the time, but still not great. The nausea is mostly in the evenings/nights now. So grateful not to have it 24/7 but having it at all still sucks. Been taking Zofran at night (before bed) and that seems to be helping some. Have been having some headaches (once a week or so). Have been so very tired, all the time, but that seems to be letting up a little too.
What I'm excited about: I swear I've been feeling this baby move for the past week, even though you're not supposed to be able to feel it until 16 weeks. It's so cool.
What I'm worried about: I've had some anxiety recently about people I love dying. (This is an ongoing issue for me that pops up every once in a while. Well, truthfully, it's there all the time, it's just sometimes it gets a little out of control.)
What my health plan has to say about my pregnancy: Let me preface this by saying before I got pregnant I asked my previous doctor if it was OK for me to do so. I was prepared not to if she said there were substantial risks. But she said go ahead, no problem. My new health plan does a pregnancy program, and after their interview sent me this list of my "Identified Risks:"
- Advanced maternal age
- History of gestational diabetes
- History of gestational hypertension
- History of preterm delivery
- History of recurrent pregnancy loss
- Infertility treatment current pregnancy - ART or IVF
Now, all this doesn't mean I shouldn't have gotten pregnant. But this list is weighing on my mind a little, like did I do something I shouldn't have? But it is what it is at this point, right? And all is well so far...
What I've been reading/watching/listening to: A book called "Love is a Mix Tape," which is un-put-downable. "Newsroom" (the whole first season), which is SUCH a good show. Oh and my husband and I went and saw "This Is the End" on our date night a week or so ago, which was fun.
What I've been doing for me: Naps. (Not very glamorous, but I feel so lucky when I get to lie down.) A massage. Hair appointment. I went to the knitting store here for the first time, to get supplies to make a baby gift for a friend of mine. (So I guess I'm going to be knitting, which I haven't done since the kids were born. It's a super easy project, should be fun.) And I ordered some stationary, which I've been meaning to do for like a year...
So that's the latest.
I'm just going to go on record here and say I HATE the first trimester of pregnancy. I knew it was going to be hard, but the sickness and the depression related to that...really awful. Months of awful. So grateful I never have to go through that again. I think the second trimester is going to be a bit more manageable, though, or at least it's shaping up that way so far, knock on wood...
XOXO
