Pregnancy: Week 16

Hi Everyone! Happy Monday (and Happy Halloween)!

So I'm 17 weeks pregnant today! Yay! Here's how the past week has been:

• Nausea, still really bad and 24/7. I'm not even sure how much good the Zofran is doing, although I'm not taking it every 8 hours as prescribed but instead waiting until I feel bad to take one...probably not the best strategy. I'm feeling down about how sick I still am. Is it ever going to get any better? Or am I going to be one of those women who is sick through the whole pregnancy?
• Eating well and gaining weight...very healthy food for the most part, minus some birthday cake last week and the occasional glass of Gatorade, which is the best thing for settling my stomach. My mom brought me a bunch of healthy stuff over the weekend (thanks, mom!)...makes eating well so easy...
• I haven't felt the babies move yet...maybe this week?
• I've spent a lot of the past week feeling stretched from the inside. It doesn't hurt but it's not the most pleasant thing, either. It's not constant, but will start and will go on for a few hours at a time
• Achy joints
• Not sleeping great because of the joint thing, the stretching, the nausea
• And have I mentioned the *ahem* embarrassing parts of being pregnant? Like my gums bleeding like crazy when I brush my teeth. Hair all over my belly. (Weird.) Peeing a little whenever I sneeze (or puke)...yeah...lovely...

And all of the above sounds like so many complaints, and I AM finding pregnancy very challenging physically, but I am also so happy and excited to be pregnant...so grateful...and it's possible we'll try to have a third child, but there's also a very good chance this is it for me, so trying to enjoy it as much as possible.

Hope everyone has a lovely week!

XOXO