Honeymoon stage??? Are you kidding me? If this is a honeymoon, then I have no idea what the third trimester will be like. �How do you feel? Do you know if it�s a boy/girl, What�s it like being pregnant?� � questions always being asked of us. You want an answer here it is�..
You want to know what it feels like being pregnant, huh??? Imagine ��eating as much food (like Thanksgiving day) where you feel like that your stomach will blow up because it has outgrown your body. You can�t move and your own resolution is that the food will process soon and you�ll be able to fit into your pants the next day. Okay�. That feeling EVERY MINUTE of the day, and there�s no tomorrow � only �a couple more months of this� and no way are you fitting into your regular clothes for a VERY long time. �well Lulu that doesn�t sound so bad�� No� how about being the most energetic person who exercised and can live without sleep and all of a sudden, you can�t even walk more than a few steps without having pain stitches in your side (aka round ligament pains � just part of being pregnant), or cramps in your legs when trying to do yoga or kickboxing. Or how about not being able to get comfortable to sleep� that belly is in the way and forget about your boobs � they hurt just by someone looking at them. What else you ask? How about being ALWAYS hungry but when you start eating you don�t want to eat anymore.. then 5 minutes later you�re hungry again. How about never being satisfied by eating? How about those strong kicks that wake you up that changed from the sweet butterflies you were feeling in your stomach? How about wanting to cuddle and be touched but can�t stand how it feels the minute you do get held? And how about the crazy moody and bossy attitude coming out of your mouth that you wonder who you are anymore?
And how about ALL those questions? EVERY day�� what�s the sex� how you feel�. How far along are you�.. being asked by THE SAME people�.. or how about complete strangers attacking your belly as if the baby really needs a �rub-down�. Oo� and how about the madness of having to figure out furniture, clothes, child care that you just wonder how more complex our lives could get�.. only 4 months until it hits us.
Besides all this, most days I feel great � almost forget I�m pregnant until I get a kick (�hey�don�t forget about me down here!�). I have found great clothes and have been busy making more own �Luka�-brand of shirts for Karl and I. Most of the acheness and uncomfortable ness comes at night time. We went to the doctors for our monthly check and everything is going well. The doctor just laughs at my stories and take on being pregnant..and I hope you do too because it�s definite an UNIQUE experience. And for those males out there who can never experience this, learn how to take care of yourself VERY well and get used to not recognizing your loved pregnant one for a while because she�s been possess by the pregnant gods.
And for the sex� we will not know until the little one decides to show up into our world. Male, female, intersex, no sex, all the fingers, healthy�we don�t care�as long as they will be a proud individual regarding themselves and the world around and are never ashamed to be themselves or have parents like us :)
�Ouch!!!!� That�s what I started saying this past week when baby Luka has decided it had learned the ways of the force to make sure the outside world will know s/he here. Wow!!! Did I grow this week. All of a sudden I look pregnant�and I feel great! Now I see it�s the honeymoon stage. Other than not fitting into my regular clothes, I feel like myself (other than I have to eat 24/7 and I get a bit irritated and short-tempered). Kick..kick� I have a Tae Bo master in my belly. It�s really a strange feeling. The closest I can explain it is that when you have gas or your intestines are working overtime and you feel them move, it�s a similar feeling but not so inward in your body � more like ��..okay it�s hard to explain. Now we can SEE the belly move too. Just this morning I saw the skin move when the baby punched. Poor Karl! He�s seen it once and get once in a while kicks in his back as we�re sleeping (and they�re not from me). O the life of a pregnant Lulu. I finished up teaching kickboxing and yoga this week. It�s going to be nice to just relax and enjoy the summer before the baby comes and changes our lives FOREVER. We finally told my mother which was an interesting reaction and not as bad as I thought. She�s already has made a full outfit for every season. As for eating, just about anything is good � still picky about chicken but no real cravings. The semester is coming to a close and residents will be gone very soon � it�s been entertaining to see me in the middle of the night documenting residents because out of nowhere I appear. Don�t mess with a pregnant woman who needs her sleep. We�re nearly the end of the second trimester which blows my mind away. Stay tune next week as we revisit the strange planet known as Lulu�s belly.
We had our monthly visit with our doctor on May 26th (which happened to be our 3-year wedding anniversary). We actually met with another doctor in the practice because we are rotating through them to meet them just in case our doctor is not able to be there to deliver our baby. So we met Dr. Larkin who was very nice. We had some questions like (can I have deli ham� yes.. only make sure it hasn�t gone bad. I�ve been breathing weird like I can�t get enough air. What�s that about� your pregnant and your lungs are more restricted with the uterus growing). Everything looked good � I had gained some pounds which just happened over the past two weeks. There�s no denying I�m pregnant now.
Then on Friday, May 27th we got to see baby Luka again on a sonogram. I am being monitored every 5 weeks on the growth of the baby due to my abnormal high level of HcG, a pregnancy hormone. Having this high level may mean nothing to having a small baby to the placenta failing early. So they are keeping track of the baby�s growth and environment. Again this is the coolest thing to lay there as a technician moves the ultrasound thing-e around your belly and you get to sneak a view of what the baby is doing� which for our baby is A LOT of MOVING!!! It just wouldn�t stay still � move here, move there, I don�t want my picture taken, I�m kicking, I�m chewing. Wow!!! Everything looked good � baby is one pound and 12 ounces and growing fine. You can see how cute the baby is in one of the pictures (it�s looking directly at you). Can�t believe that we�re having a baby � I definitely believe it now with the belly coming out and all the kicking.
The end of May brought the end of the school year and all the residents moved out. My hall directors took me shopping at Mimi Maternity and they got me a very nice professional outfit and I got a bathing suit (sexy Mama!). I have been very good with clothes � only got some items from Kohl�s and Old Navy. Mother was told and she has been unstop in making items for the baby � this child has more clothing than Paris Hilton. We have started preparing the apartment for the transformation to add the baby.