Jan 212011
(also known as “the Facebook status messages that didn’t make it”…)
5 1/2 weeks: When buying a pregnancy test, leave the 2-year-old and 1-year-old at home. If you don’t, at least remember that since the barrage of questions come so fast, you can be selective about which you answer: “Uh oh! Were you guys trying? Do you have any more kids?”- 7 weeks: The good thing about waiting until your second trimester to tell anyone you’re pregnant is that there is great incentive to look and dress skinny.
- 17 weeks: Maternity pants with a stretch panel are definitely something to be thankful for on Thanksgiving.
- 18 weeks: Craving salt so badly I just ate an entire tin of golden smoked herring. 240mg of sodium should do me for the moment, at least.
- 19 weeks: And we have entered the time of pregnancy where we wear all the clothes we never usually wear for fear they will make us look pregnant—for now, they are the only ones that fit!
- 20 weeks: It’s official, only maternity shirts work any more. Low-rise jeans may still fit, at least in the mornings (and those ones that were heretofore much too big, of course), but any other shirt now looks much too short.
- 21 weeks: When pregnant, and packing clothes for any trip longer than 2 days, take lots of options, including the ones that are plenty big: you never know how much baby will grow while you’re gone!
22 weeks: Stretchy PJ pants are replaced by cozy nightgowns.- 23 weeks: The doctor says, “It’s always easier to gain weight on the second pregnancy,” and I have to remind her that it’s my third—thus thrice the ease of weight gain, right?
- 23 1/2 weeks: Maternity shots should not be taken from the level of the tummy, but from the level of the eye—otherwise, they magnify the size of the tummy ten-fold.
- 24 weeks: I must have been away from church too long—someone just noticed I was pregnant on Sunday!
- 24 weeks: When I take off my socks, I am struck by the fact that my ankles have gotten bigger as my bladder has gotten smaller.
- 24 1/2 weeks: Oh, heartburn, please tell me you’re not here to stay!
- 25 weeks: Baby must be having a growth spurt—I’m hungry again.
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So cute!!
Seriously, I am always so amazed at how you always manage to carry any weight you might gain in such a way that it is baby and the rest of you looks tiny still. Pretty sure I’d get all puffy.
Still can’t wait to see if this is another little girl or if it is the boy I’m still holding out that it’ll be.
I happen to know how the rest of me has grown as well, but oh well, it always seems to come off fairly easily, and with three children keeping me hopping, it’s sure to melt off, right?
You and everyone else are convinced it’s a boy…but Merritt and I are figuring on another girl at the rate we’re going.
Loved this…so fun! And I agree with Chantel…I definitely can’t tell if you’ve gained weight that’s not baby.
In regard to pregnancy tests, this time around I bought them from anotherblessing.com…they’re only 85 cents each! It was really nice considering that it took awhile for the pregnancy to register as positive…thus using several tests…and they can get expensive at the drugstore!
Oh, that’s good to know, thanks! The drugstore prices are astronomical–and the questions the clerks ask….well…they make the price seem even more outrageous.
Aww you look wonderful!! I’m 19 weeks pregnant and the heart burn has just begun. I think that’s my least favorite thing about being pregnant. Well it’s either that, the gaining weight, or the hormones…:-)
Thankfully, the heartburn seemed to just be due to something I ate that day, and hasn’t come back to stay yet! I do find orange juice contributes to it in the later months…
I don’t have the ankle swelling yet, but I do know about the shrunk bladder!
It only gets worse, m’dear.
25+ weeks: Oh, there’s another growth spurt, and another. And another. It’s crazy how one day, my appetite is totally normal, and the next, I can eat a whole meal and be hungry again five minutes later.
Well, considering how many you’re eating for, that’s completely understandable!
You look lovely and pretty in the photos Gretchen.
You look like all the weight you’ve gained is just baby!
Seriously, you look so beautiful!
I must have a trick camera–but thank you.
You are so cute pregnant – and I don’t say that to many ladies!!!!