9 weeks.

We're at week 9! I can't believe how fast these weeks are going! Can time slow down?!

How baby's growing:


Your new resident is nearly an inch long — about the size of a grape — and weighs just a fraction of an ounce. She's starting to look more and more human. Her essential body parts are accounted for, though they'll go through plenty of fine-tuning in the coming months. Other changes abound: Your baby's heart finishes dividing into four chambers, and the valves start to form — as do her tiny teeth. The embryonic "tail" is completely gone. Your baby's organs, muscles, and nerves are kicking into gear. The external sex organs are there but won't be distinguishable as male or female for another few weeks. Her eyes are fully formed, but her eyelids are fused shut and won't open until 27 weeks. She has tiny earlobes, and her mouth, nose, and nostrils are more distinct. The placenta is developed enough now to take over most of the critical job of producing hormones. Now that your baby's basic physiology is in place, she's poised for rapid weight gain. (From Baby Center)


To read that is an absolute miracle. Honestly, the forming of a child is just an incredible miracle. I can't believe that I'm housing this child for another 31 weeks, that my body is this tiny human's home where s/he was put together by their Creator. Sorry for getting sappy, but I'm pregnant, I have these moments. 

So happy s/he doesn't look like an alien!

How I'm feeling: 

My super sense of smell came in in the last week. Nothing really bothers me, but I can smell just about everything. I'm still getting up a lot during the night to pee, but that's not going to change I'm sure. My boobs still hurt, but either I'm getting used to them, or they aren't hurting as much. The worse is when I wake up during the night to go to the bathroom and that initial gravity pulling them down SUCKS.

Yesterday was the first day where I could have actually taken a nap. Call us redneck, but my in-laws had a wood splitting party where the men rented a splitter and split wood all day and the women cooked and gabbed all day. We finally got to tell the rest of the family - Mr. Skinny's one sister and his two aunts - so there was a lot of baby talk for most of the day. I actually felt kind of dizzy yesterday, too. Nothing too bad, but every time I got up to go to the bathroom, I was light-headed. I feel okay today, but I'm hoping that doesn't become a regular thing.

I think this is a weird angled shot, agreed?

I'm still not having any cravings for anything specific, and not a ton of food is appealing to me right now, but I'm starting to cook a little bit more. I'm still nauseous more often than not, and Mr. Skinny is letting me sleep in most mornings. I feel bad, but I can't just pop out of bed anymore, I have to lay there and grab something to eat and wait for my stomach to settle. We're gonna have to figure something out for him. Fruits and vegetables still aren't appealing to me and with all the summer fruits & veggies gone, it's hard for me to convince myself I should eat an apple or banana. I'd love to start drinking my green monsters again so that I can get something healthy in me, but they don't sounds good at all. I'm still in the mood for simple carbs and easy food, i.e. fast food or something super convenient.

9 weeks.

I'm still not feeling pregnant over just fat, and even though I've only gained 2 lbs - another 0.6 on Friday bringing the total to exactly 2 - I can't help but feel like the weight I've worked so hard to loose is all back. I can't remember what I looked like 30+ pounds ago and I'm having a hard time accepting that the scale is going to creep up. I know it's supposed to and it has to, but it's hard. I'm sure some of you can relate. I can't wait until I just look pregnant and not just fat. It's hard to not look at that picture and criticize it, but I am growing a human and that's hard work! I just need to keep telling myself that. 

I bought a bella band last week before my doctor's appointment and let me tell you, that thing is the best invention ever! If you don't know what it is, it's like a spandex-y band that you put over your unbuttoned jeans and it goes up to your boobs, basically, but you don't have to button/zip your jeans! I know I'll get a pair of maternity pants eventually, but for right now, the bella band is my best friend. 

Exercise still isn't happening either, but I think I'm going to make myself go for a walk today. I have a treadmill and there's no excuse why I can't just walk on that, but it's a little complicated to set up, I have to spin it around and we have wood floors in our room that get scratched when I do that, but it's sunny today so no excuses! I might try to run a little bit, like a minute at a time, just to get some extra exercise in. I really need to stop being lazy and get my butt a-walking. 

Tell me:

What did you do this weekend? 

Do you think a wood splitting party is a little bit or a lotta bit redneck?