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| From Weeks 11 - 15 ... |
| It sounds like a bad country and western song, and it's just annoying! Every morning I struggle with what will fit or what will make me look FAT! The shirts I was getting by with no longer work. The buttons pull here AND there! Very frustrating! I tried the belly belt extender for a few weeks but my pre-pregnancy pants/jeans were made to hug my waist ... with the extender, they just keep falling down and it is very uncomfortableBut every time I went to buy maternity jeans, they all fit like they expected a second person to be in there! Up until week 15 I was a very in-between size but this week .... THIS WEEK I was finally able to fit into a decent pair of maternity jeans!!!!! I tried on one of every style and only ONE style fits right?! I am still hoping that running them through the washing machine will shrink them a little ... One day I slipped on my favorite pre-pregnancy jeans and a long pre-pregnancy shirt that was always a little big and thought I was very cute ... until I got a glimpse of my side view in a mirror. Then I slowly turned around to see the back-half .... I had to take it off. I was very late for work that day, almost in tears and very depressed. For all of you who have yet to go through this ... please know this ... wear maternity shirts at all times once you have gotten to the point where your regular pants no longer button! This rule will save you some very stressful mornings! Don't get me wrong, I LOVE being pregnant, it's just this in between stage where I really just look fat and not pregnant. Very hard to dress. Now that I have switched to 99% maternity clothes, it is much easier to choose what to wear. I guess b/c there isn't much to choose from yet. I refuse to buy two wardrobes (one for winter/one for summer) ... I am just trying to buy spring/summer clothes and wear as much as I can until then. This temporary size is not worth buying that many clothes ... |
| Week 12 weight = 130 pounds |
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| We have decided on two names ... If its a boy = Lucas J Ruger .... J not Jay ~ and we would call him "Luke" If it's a girl = Lillian Grace Ruger ~ and we would call her "Lilli" Lucas (other than being my dogs name) has no relevance to the family. But Jason and I both LOVE the movie 'Cool Hand Luke' ... in fact, that is the only movie we both had copies of! J is how my dads middle name is spelled. ALSO ~ J for Jason and J for his dads name, Kenneth James and my dads dads name is Billy Joe and his dads name is John .... there were too many J's not to pick J! Lillian is my dads mothers mothers name (my great-grandmother) and Grace is my dads mothers name (my grandmother) .... so mother daughter name ... neat huh? And we decided on "Lilli" b/c my Granny (Grace) said it would be neat to spell it like that .... so we want to spell it that way for her ... also, b/c we think it is neat and different too! All that said, I think I am at the end of this journal. See you in a few weeks! |
| Enough about clothes!! On to what really matters ... .WEIGHT! I had gained 10 pounds at my 12 week visit. I was worried that the doctor would fuss at me, since that seemed like SO much! She said I needed to look into walking or doing some excersize once it gets warmer, but she had no "real" concern. I swore that I would walk once it got warmer, but she reassured me I was okay - since I was underweight to begin with. I read online somewhere that I should hit the 5-10 pound weight gain mark at week 16! I immediatly looked around to make sure no one else read that! Maybe since I had no sickness (nausea), I gained weight instead of losing it? I hope it doesn't mean that I will have 10 pounder!? Do I feel it moving? Yes! I read in several books that I should start feeling something at around 20 weeks, but I am here to tell you - that is bullcrap! I have read in just as many webpages that some start to feel "flutters" as early as 14 weeks. I did. It feels like a butterfly down there beating against the sides of my uterus. It's just amazing! I can't wait until it is big enough to feel a foot or an elbow! Or when Jason gets to feel it ... I feel selfish b/c I am the only one that can enjoy it for now. Our next appointment is March 18th - that is when we find out the sex of the baby. And yes, we are going to find out. I really don't want a wardrobe of green and yellow. It's only two weeks away! SO EXCITING! I know it will be hard to refrain from buying clothes once we find out! |
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