How Far Along: 14 weeks and 2 days
Size of baby: baby is the size of a lemon; about 3 and 1/2 inches
Total Weight Gain/Loss: This is an unfair question right after Easter weekend at my parents. My Mom is such a good cook and we really ate! When I weighed myself yesterday morning, I was 2 pounds up from week 12... so I guess that puts me at 7 pounds total.
Maternity Clothes: I bought a pair of black maternity pants for work at Target last week, and I wore them for the first time today! I am traveling for work this week, and I didn't want to have to deal with a waistband on an airplane and while sitting in meetings. They have worked perfectly! Except I really don't have a true belly yet, so the pants were falling down a bit at the end of the day. I plan on wearing them a couple more times this week so hopefully they hold out and stay up for just a couple more days. Or maybe I should just go on an eating binge and create a belly in the next couple days... or maybe not.
Gender: I've been having dreams that we're having a girl. The most vivid dream was last week. It included me with our little girl. She was about 2 years old with blonde hair and curls... she was so cute! I felt so proud in my dream, proud that I was her Mom. The funny part of the dream is that everyone kept calling the baby girl "Hailey". And I kept telling everyone that wasn't her name... that we were still deciding on a name for her. Yup, our 2-year-old baby did not yet have a name.
Movement: Nope, not yet
Sleep: I think I've had a burst of energy, or maybe I just fall asleep on the couch really early, or maybe it's the stress of work. But I haven't slept all night through without waking at 2am thinking about work (or anything else that's on my mind) in a long time! Actually, I did sleep pretty well over the weekend at my parents' house. But other nights, I've woken up for 1 hour to 1 and 1/2 hours at a time in the middle of the night. Last week was my most stressful week so far at work, so I think it was really weighing on my mind. Hopefully that will improve soon. Has to, right? I need to get my sleep now!
What I miss: This past week, I've had a couple moments where I've really missed being able to work out HARD. I miss being out of breath and really making my body work. I've really been taking my workouts easy. I decided this week to not join the weight-training program at work for this next 4-week session. Instead I'm going to add another session of yoga per week. I still want to keep lifting weights on my own, but I feel like the focus of the work weight-training class is body building and they didn't give me too many options to modify exercises or the routine. Regularly, the have a Biggest Loser contest at work. I'm hoping they'll have the contest starting around 2/1/12. I already want to get in the best shape of my life after the baby comes. I'm hoping to do what I can during this pregnancy to remain healthy. This is important to me for a number of reasons, and really one of the most important is so it's not a unbeatable battle post-pregnancy.
Cravings: All of that workout and healthy stuff being said... I haven't been eating the best lately. As I mentioned, it was quite the weekend of feasting. I love holidays with the Patton family! Aside from this weekend, I can say that I'm craving fruit but I'm not craving vegetables. And I'm just craving unhealthy food in general. I went to Whole Foods here in CT tonight to pick some stuff up for this week. I bought apples, grapes, bagels and cream cheese.. and pizza for dinner tonight. At least it was pizza from Whole Foods - has to be healthy, right? Riggghhhtt... I just couldn't bring myself to get any vegetables; they just didn't look appealing. The only kind of vegetables I like right now are frozen broccoli with cheese. Doesn't matter how I get my vegetables, just that I get them, right? :)
Symptoms: I've been feeling pretty good! I was nervous about how I would feel this morning. I usually don't feel well when I don't get much sleep, and I didn't get much sleep last night. Carl and I went to the Arcade Fire/The National concert last night at the UIC Pavillion and we didn't get home until after midnight. And the alarm started going off at an early 4:30am so we could get me to the airport on time for my early flight. But no worries! I felt really good!
Best moment this week: The concert last night was UNREAL. We had already seen both Arcade Fire and The National at Lollapalooza last summer, but seeing them in a true venue was incredible. The show, the performance, the energy, the acoustics... holy cow! Arcade Fire started their set with Ready to Start then went into Keep the Car Running then Haiti. And this was just the start. They played all of my favorites! The whole show was awesome, but the encore really got me...they really pulled out all the stops with Wake Up (my fave!) and Sprawl II (Mountains Between Mountains). Totally worth the lack of sleep! (And when do I ever say that??) I would go see them again anytime, anywhere.
Best husband quote of the week: Carl's really been there for me. He always has. This morning Carl got up really early with me to take me to the airport. And he didn't just drop me off... he actually went in with me and went through security with his badge. Our plan was to get breakfast together, but we mistakenly took "the long way" to the terminal and only had about 10 minutes to scarf down our McDonald's Egg McMuffins before they started boarding my plane. I'm not an independent traveler... I just haven't flown enough by myself to be really confident with traveling by myself, so it was great to have his support and have him with me this morning.
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