In the past month Jacob has fallen in love with salad and when its on the table he must have more, more, more salad! I’m not sure how he got so interested in it but he absolutely loves it. If I had to fetch a guess I would say its because we’ve been having it on our table a lot recently and when he saw us eating it he just had to have some too. Many people told us that he’d never “get into salad” until a much older age because of the texture of the lettuce but it seems that Mr. Jake doesn’t have a problem with it at all so he is allowed to have an unlimited amount of salad if he desires. I think by far his favorite salad is caesar salad or anything with a creamy dressing (like ranch), however today Mike’s mom gave him some salad with a spicy italian dressing on it and he loved that too! He’ll even do what is very hard for me to do…eat salad without any dressing on it! I think over the next little while we’re going to experiment with a variety of different salad toppings to see just how interested he can get! Yummy!
September 15th, 2008:
20 Weeks Pregnant
We’re at the halfway point! Sweet! As of tomorrow I officially have less time left to be pregnant then I’ve already been and that’s pretty darn exciting if you ask me. It’s been a busy week full of appointments and my return to work so I have been holding onto most pregnancy related information for this post.
Last Thursday I have my anatomical scan ultrasound which I updated about in my post called the BIG ultrasound earlier in the week! If you recall, everything went wonderful there but we are going back on September 24th for a re-scan due to some visibility and positionning issues. On Friday I had my monthly pre-natal appointment which was with my regular family doctor since we are still doing shared care and I won’t see my OB until around 28 weeks pregnant. Overall it was a really great appointment which not much exciting to report…The last time I had seen her (July) I had dropped about 17 pounds and this time I had ganied 2 pounds since I had last seen her (darn vacation and yummy food) so I am still at -15 pounds weight gain for this pregnancy. Now, despite this negative weight loss I feel absolutely huge in comparison to pre-pregnancy and I wish I could just feel like I was -15 pounds but alas it is not in the cards. My blood pressure which usually sits between 125/85 and 130/90 was doing better then ever this month at 120/80 so hooray for me and managing to keep that under control…my urine was perfect with no protein or sugar and I go back to see her at 24 weeks (October 10th) at which point she’ll give me the requisition form for my gestational diabetes test (blech). After that I’ll be heading over to my OB’s care but I will continue to see her once a month for morale and to talk about the anxiety of delivery. I know I’ve said it about a hundred thousand times before but I absolutely love my family physician and feel completely comfortable with her.
The baby continues to grow and this week is as big as a cantaloupe! Wow! We’re really making some progress now!
I’ve got to say that I’ve been feeling pretty good lately aside from the evening exhaustion and lack of night time sleep. I rarely feel nauseated anymore and the back pain that I was experiencing previously seems to have disappeared….thank goodness! The lack of sleep that I’ve been experiencing stems from not being able to find a comfortable position to sleep in and the evening exhaustion comes from not being able to sleep well at night so it’s obvious the two are working hand in hand against me. I am trying different sleeping positions at night and hoping to find something that works for me but so far I’ve been quite unsuccessful. I am not really having any pregnancy cravings and continue to try and eat relatively healthy throughout my pregnancy with no caffeine and no medications….I’m quite impressed with how I have been handling migraine headaches without any meds! Yay me!
Well that’s really it stalkers bloggy people! Nothing else to report! Onward towards the 6th month of pregnancy now….
