I am 18 weeks today. I kept meaning to write a 17 week post. I’d think of small things to write about, but then didn’t right away, and whatever I wanted to say was gone from my memory before I ever wrote it down. So basically nothing super eventful. So I imagine this will be a short post (ok relatively) unless I start rambling (totally possible).
Ok here’s the only TMI paragraph of this post, so skip ahead if you like. I was worried some days ago (can’t remember what day exactly now–I think maybe the Friday after I turned 16 weeks, then maybe the Monday evening after that) because I had a VERY TINY amount of bleeding. And I mean TINY. Like if you took a fine tip pen and drew a line for a few millimeters. The first time I saw it on TP; the second time I saw it on my underwear. It was red though, so it freaked me out. Especially since I had not had any bleeding in something like 7 weeks, if I remember right. And we had not done anything that would have *ahem* disrupted my cervix. I called the nurse on call, and she was basically not at all concerned. She wasn’t even convinced something as miniscule as that would have anything to do with pregnancy. Could be any kind of irritation (?). I had another thing like it again night before last, but since I had already asked about it, I just tried to shrug it off. I think I’ve felt some sort of movement sometime after each of those incidents, which gives me some peace of mind.
So on the topic of movement. I’m still not getting really obvious feelings. I feel something every couple of days I think, but nothing REALLY obvious. I went back over my old blog posts to compare, and I am within just a couple of days of when I felt something daily before, but those I had to be sitting still to notice them. I’m just so anxious to have something that gives me peace of mind each day. Hopefully soon.
Big scan is one week from today. I am getting a little nervous about it, but also very, very excited. Can’t wait to find out what team we’re on this time.
OH I can’t remember if I mentioned the belly stickers I bought online on a deal site before I ever dreamed we’d have trouble conceiving. I couldn’t find them. Never imagined it’d be so long before I could use them. BUT I found them! They start at week 14 and then go in 2 week increments. I found them in time to start with the 16 week sticker, but I never got around to a photo. 🙁 I must take a pic soon so I can use that 18 week sticker.
I don’t think I wrote about this yet–I was feeling discouraged because I didn’t feel like I grew that much between Weeks 16-17 like I did between Weeks 15-16. Then last week I put on my work clothes and I figured out what was going on. I was looking at the bump in profile, and it hadn’t grown a ton in that dimension. But the side spread is setting in. 🙂 I am wider! I remember last time that happened, the big time belly growth was not too far behind. I have grown some in the past week, but how much still depends a lot on the time of day. First half of the day–not a lot of belly. Last half of the day–I feel like it’s all hanging out. (Though my patients are still very gracious and say that they can’t tell I’m pregnant even if I tell them–maybe it’s happened that these are my earlier in the day patients, haha.)
Baby is apparently roughly the size of a sweet potato now (17 weeks was an onion). (It kills me that I can have something that big in there and still scarcely feel it.) Here’s the cartoon baby:
Okay this post was short. Ish. By my standards. 😉