23 Skidoo

I am just about at the 20 week mark—that’s halfway to the finish line! I am hoping the next 20 weeks will go more quickly than the first. I’ve got two weddings, the holidays, and some work deadlines between now and then, so I am hoping those events will all help time go by quickly.

Since my last post we found out we are definitely having a boy. I suspected it from the very beginning and I am super excited. I never hoped for one gender more than the other, so I would have been excited either way. I have more experience with girls, so that might have seemed a little less scary, but I’m up for the challenge! I just can’t wait to meet little Jonah.

I also just experienced my first Halloween in 3 years where I actually got to eat chocolate! My IC hasn’t gone completely into remission with the pregnancy, but chocolate is not bothering me as much as usual so I took full advantage of it and ate as much candy as I could fit in my mouth over the past couple days. I’ve also been having pizza about once a week. I plan on having lasagna on Christmas this year, which will be so wonderful! I have to enjoy all of this now because I probably won’t have these luxuries anymore until we decide to have a second baby and I am pregnant again. Interesting, I cannot handle chocolate in all forms. Chocolate froyo, ice cream, and chocolate milk flare me right up (even though in general dairy does not bother me at all). Also, I have been able to eat apples, but I tried to have a peach and it was a disaster. So I don’t know what all that is about, but I’ll take what I can get and be thankful for that. It’s a little ridiculous how much I love Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.

I’ve been reading books to Jonah and playing him some music here and there. I haven’t felt any major kicks yet, but I feel fluttering almost every night when I get into bed. There were a couple nights in a row when I didn’t feel it and I got sad so Joey rubbed my belly for a while and I kid you not (pun totally intended), within 5 minutes I felt the movements again and it kept happening all night and even a little at work the next day. Joey claims that he recharged the baby. It was pretty freaking adorable, I have to say.

Lately, I’ve got the nursery on my mind. I have been frequenting a website called Project Nursery for ideas and inspiration. I am hoping to convince Joey that we should go pick out some VOC free paint this weekend. Still haven’t decided between green or blue. At first I didn’t want blue because it seemed too obvious (and because green is both of our favorite color) but it is a soothing color so we will see. Either color would work well with the ideas I have in my mind for his room.

That’s about it as far as fun stuff goes though. I am still nauseous everyday unfortunately. Morning sickness never went away. It’s less intense, but still very much a part of my world. I have to take Zofram when I wake up every morning or I can’t hold down my food. Luckily one per day seems to work at this point. The exhaustion hasn’t subsided much either. In fact, I am sleeping worse and worse so I feel more exhausted some days than during the first trimester. I suspect it will only get worse and that I need to just look at it as prep for when Jonah is born. My cat likes to help with that exercise by randomly waking me up right when I finally fall back asleep several times a night. It’s just delightful.

Sometimes I stop and think about what’s really happening here and it blows my mind. Being pregnant is the strangest experience I’ve ever had, by far!

Over and out for now.