12 Weeks

 

How far along? 12 weeks (Jan 12, 2017)

Baby size: Plum, weight .49 oz, length 2.13in

Total weight gain/loss: None
Maternity clothes? Some simply because I'm so nauseated that anything pressing against or touching my stomach makes me feel worse.
Stretch marks? Not so far. 
Sleep: I go to bed around 7:30-8 every night, basically as soon as I put Emersyn to bed.  I am so sick at night, so the sooner I dose off to sleep the better!!  I have been taking advantage of Emersyn's nap time too and many days get a nap in myself.  I'm sick from around noon til bedtime so the more I can sleep through the pain, the better.
Best moment this week:  We had a beautiful snow this past weekend, and although I wish I had felt better and had more energy, I had so much fun watching Emersyn enjoy sledding down a hill, making snow angels, and snow cream.  It was also a blessing to have Daniel home for three straight days to give me a helping hand.
Miss Anything? Feeling like myself, having energy, being able to  keep up with my toddler, enjoying food, and having the motivation to put make up on each day.
Movement: Not yet
Food cravings: For breakfast every morning I have cereal (Life, Cinnamon Chex, or Special K Cinnamon Pecan).  Lunch I can stomach more and have been craving salads, pastas, pizza, and meals that have few ingredients.  Afternoon snack is typically a yogurt.  Dinner is cereal again... I cannot stomach anything else!!  I chew gum pretty much anytime food is not in my mouth.  Not sure if it really helps, but at least the taste is something that doesn't bother me.
Anything making you queasy or sick: Anything greasy, smell of coffee, desserts (especially chocolate and cakes), casseroles, foods with multiple ingredients.  Any and all foods at dinner time besides cereal.    Many smells of food and even people talking about food.  I cannot cook in the house because the smell turns my stomach.  I avoid the grocery store!!  Looking at all the food makes me sick.  Emersyn's stinky diapers smell much worse than normal to me as well!!  Brushing my teeth is also very hard.  I gag pretty much every time and sometimes vomit :(
Have you started to show yet: Not yet.  I may look like it at night because I am super bloated every evening, but by morning my stomach is back to normal.
Gender: I'm thinking boy simply because I feel like I have been more sick with baby #2 than with Emersyn. 
Symptoms: Nausea and throat burn from noon til bedtime, exhausted, smells really bother me, I can hardly look at Pinterest because I hate seeing pictures of food, when food commercials come on the television I have to close my eyes, frequent trips to the bathroom.  I also received a phone call on January 10th from a nurse at my OB saying my urine culture had come back with bacteria levels, and I would need to start a 7 day antibiotic that day.  I had no clue what this meant because I have never experienced this, but she explained it was probably a UTI.  (My last visit was December 14th, so I questioned why it took them so long to call me about this.  They apoloziged and said my labs had been lost.  Because of the month time lapse, I requested to be tested again to make sure.)
Belly Button in or out? In
Wedding rings on or off? On
Looking forward to: Having more energy to play with my daughter and take care of our home!!  Would love to enjoy dinner again too so hubby and I can have a much needed date sometime :)  Our next doctor's appointment is January 18th, so excited to see and hear the baby again!!  

A Few More Pictures from our Snow Weekend