Ultrasound and the great gender mystery...

So, we had the ultrasound on Monday and it was truly AMAZING! The Bean was moving around like crazy and we got to see it all. The tech measured the baby's head and belly and with a bunch of measurements determined that Bean is 5 days more developed than what the due date suggests. Also, determined that Bean weighs 8ounces already....my baby weighs half a pound...Already? I am thinking we won't need any newborn sized stuff after all.
We also found out the Bean's gender but aren't telling everyone until after Christmas.
(It's part of my FIL's gift to be the first besides the LOML & I to know)
People keep trying to get us to "spill the Bean" to quote my MIL but we haven't yet.
That's part of the reason I haven't blogged about it yet. It's hard not to say Bean's real name, now that I know it. I find myself starting to type gender specific pronouns,and have to stop. I will re-read this about 50 times before I post it, just to make sure that I didn't let it slip at all.
We did pick up an outfit to bring Bean home from the hospital in and are super excited to be able to call Bean by what will be its name.
May seems ages away but my belly feels more taut everyday. Can't wait yet still so much to do.
Love my little....Bean!
:)
Ciao for now~
marymontmama

Note to self: don't research baby stuff right before bed

So, I have had insomnia for years, and now with my husband working nights and wanting me to nap with him, I have been having a hard time getting to sleep. So, sometimes I read, or blog, or write in Bean's journal. But when I do baby-centric stuff, I find I get too excited to sleep afterward. Reading up on breast feeding makes me so excited to hold and nurture my baby I become like a kid on Christmas Eve or the first day of school.
The other night I was imagining up to the first day of high school for cryin' out loud!
Can't help it, and the closer the ultrasound gets, the more excited I get.
We are now only 3 days away from the ultrasound! Which is probably part of the reason I am still up.
Today though something fairly amazing happened, I was laying on the daybed and the LOML came over and was talking to my tummy/the Bean and I felt something, kind of like how soda feels on the roof of your mouth, except in my lower abdomen. I was amazed then thought it may have been nothing, then he talked to my tummy again and it happened again. (Like 5 times) so, I felt the baby move and it was awesome!
Super excited and can't sleep again.
Ciao for now~
marymontmama

I have become such a girl!

Don't get me wrong I have no problem with women who are "girls girls". I have just never been one myself, and so to suddenly get all weepy over things that pre-pregnancy I wouldn't have thought twice about is strange for me.
Need examples? I have a plethora of them.
The other day, I caught the last 10 minutes of a romantic comedy (I don't even know what the name of it was, and have never seen it before...) not having invested anytime in the characters I should be completely unaffected by their getting together or not...right? Pre-pregnancy, I probably would have just kept flipping the channel to begin with but now? Oh yeah I cried, didn't even get the reference to earlier parts of the movie, still cried.
My husband will say something to me that he has said 5,000 times before (pre-pregnancy, I may have even laughed every time.) now,for some reason, the floodgates open.
And it's not just weepiness either, I have been getting aggravated way more easily too. Like people on Reddit make me want to break things, and I got so frustrated with my phone while trying to post the last blog post that I ended up with both! Simultaneously tearing up in frustration and wanting to hurl my phone out of the window.
I am going to blame the hormones and let it go at that.
As for the Bean?
4-5 inches long and weighing up to 5 ounces, and the tiny bones in the ears are in place which means Bean can hear us, yes we've been talking to my tummy. In just about 8 days we get our next ultrasound and we will get another one around the new year. We also need to get an updated schedule for birthing classes, we are taking them in February, I believe.
We are super excited, if you can't tell.
Ciao for now~
marymontmama

Fat lady encouraged to put on weight, weirdest feeling ever.

Okay,Monday I had my appointment with one of the nurse midwives, and she said I had put back on some of the weight I had lost in the first trimester. She also didn't seem terribly concerned about the weight loss to begin with. The other questions I had for her were about a minor cardiac issue I have on occasion and the amount of dizziness I am experiencing. (need to let them know if I have another "episode" I guess we will call it, but unless there is chest pain or any heart attack symptoms she isn't worried and said it shouldn't effect the Bean.) The dizziness is normal, my body still doesn't have all of the blood which it has been making space for...
Now, that was Monday, today (Thursday) I had to go in for a "weight check" for WIC. If you are unfamiliar with WIC, it stands for Women Infants and Children and is a program through the FDA to encourage good prenatal and early childhood nutrition. IT IS NOT FOODSTAMPS, NOR IS IT GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIZED.
Anyway I had to go in for a "weight check" today because I dropped 12 pounds during the first trimester and so they want to make sure I start gaining or at least maintaining weight.
Now, if you haven't been heavy (there's a word that won't make everyone uncozy, unlike the f-word which I put in the title of this post f*t)anyway I am not sure you can grasp how very strange this is to be told. I have been big my whole life. Not always as big as I am now but always obese. This is the first time in my life that I stepped up onto a Dr's scale and had someone a bit disappointed that I lost a few ounces. I don't know quite how to react. I know I actually do need to eat more often, have only been having about two meals and maybe one snack everyday but, need to start feeding the Bean more often than that. So I may just have to switch to a bunch of little meals, or grazing as my ex-mil used to call it. Feed the Bean every few hours. I think the strangest part is that I have been losing weight but my tummy is getting bigger. (the LOML, keeps laughing at me when I say this and just replies with a matter of fact, "because you're PREGNANT".)
I have also been dealing with hormones that are through the roof but as I am posting from my phone again, and as it isn't being cooperative, I will post about that another time.
Ciao for now ~
marymontama
(please be understanding of typos until I can correct them, as I said my phone is being less than cooperative)
Typos fixed, thanks for your understanding.