Pregnancy, Week 18 and 5 days

I know, I know, it's about time :)

Pregnancy: 18 weeks and 5 days. Will be 19 weeks on Friday the 28th!

 

Weight Gain: Around 7 pounds which I am pretty happy with!

Sleep: Weird! I'm not big, though I'm not offended when people can tell that I am preggo already, but sleep is already really difficult. Besides having to pee a lot in the middle of the night, I get leg cramps, side cramps, and weird aches and pains. Nothing major but still makes getting a good solid night of sleep a wee bit difficult!

 

Gender: We will be finding out in the coming weeks! Really looking forward to knowing!  When we have a date picked out for the ultrasound I will play the guessing game with everyone about what you all think we are having this time around! A healthy baby is my only request :)

Name: Well, I am really hoping to get my way on this, and I would like to keep said name for either a boy or girl a secret until we have him/her. Daddy is the deciding factor in this of course, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that he'll let us go for it! We already have a girl name for SURE picked out, and a boy name, we're way undecided on!

Feeling: knock on wood....GREAT! I really for the most part, honestly dont feel pregnant. Besides wearing maternity clothes (and I am right at the awkward stage of not fitting into regular clothes and not yet fitting into my maternity stuff), having a bit of a belly, and the occasional pelvic pain and contraction, I feel amazing! Really looking forward to telling this one how "kind" they were to Mommy, but letting both our kids know that I would have gone through everything I went through with Brayden and much much worse to have two healthy kiddos!

Health: Great!

 

Belly: There! Lopsided at times which is always really fun. I have not felt baby yet, at least not convincingly enough for me :), but I have heard that if you are underweight to begin with, you can feel the baby even later...we shall see!

 

What I am looking forward to: too many things to count, another ultrasound, finding out the baby's sex, Brayden catching on more (now he will kiss my belly when I ask him where the baby is), decorating, nesting, etc :)

 

What I miss: not a whole lot :)

Milestones: Nothing yet!

 

Movement: Nothing yet!

Cravings: Nothing really. I'm happy eating, making, cooking, baking just about everything! Though, I do use my pregnant status to encourage my husband to make late night gas station runs for me, and he obliges being the awesome hubby that he is!