things i won't miss about being pregnant.

 

{source: tumblr}

I thank God that I'm blessed with a great and relatively easy pregnancy so far. Other than the morning sickness during the first trimester, I haven't had any extreme problems or serious complaints. I even rarely have any question for my OB. However, there are some things that I certainly won't miss about being pregnant.

1. Feeling extremely gassy. I've been chewing so many chewing gum to keep me away from being nauseated, but then the gum makes me gassy, especially during bedtime. I'm literally a burping machine, nowadays. Last night I was so gassy and the after taste of the burps makes me nauseated and vomited 3 times.

2. Not being able to eat things. Sushi, tiramisu, other liquored cakes and desserts, are just a few things I miss. Nowadays, I really have to think about what kind of food I eat and even the contents or the ingredients. The other day I was eating Kimbap (Korean sushi) which contains egg, cucumber, spinach, pickled raddish, carrots, and fishcake. Then I automatically think, "What kind of fish is in this fishcake? Would this contain a lot of mercury?". I wasn't sure so I had to set aside the fishcake because I don't want to take any risk. Whatever I eat will be baby's food too.

3. Having to pee ALL the time. There was one time at night that I had to get up every 5 minutes to pee. Also, almost every night I have to wake up at least once to go to the bathroom.

4. Being able to exercise freely. My OB is very lenient about me exercising, and in fact she encourages me too. However, I'm a little paranoid myself and trying to limit myself here and there. Because there is no "set" rules for safety, I choose to not take a lot of risk and go with low impact exercise.

5. The over-abundant attention. I'm not so much a person who loves being the center of the attention, so this has been taking a little getting used to. I'm fine with people that I know who wants to rub the belly, would I'd definitely feel uncomfortable if strangers start doing that.

6. Feeling HUGE and not being able to wear this and that. I've been stressing out every time I get on the scale. I know it's good for baby to grow (of course!!!), but I have never been this heavy all my life and it's always a shock every time I get on the scale and see the number. Also, nowadays, I have super limited selection as far as wardrobe. I miss wearing my summer dresses.

7. Having a hard time sleeping at night. Sometimes it's the back pain, or the gassy feeling, or having to pee, or something aches. I've been having a difficulty to sleep at night.

8. The unpleasant "metallic" after taste in my tongue, no matter what I eat. Seriously, this one is so annoying. It's so hard to enjoy food these days. This is often what triggers me being nauseous and sometimes leading to vomiting. 

baby gunners to-be.

Arsenal Youth/Reserves team is right here in Dallas to compete at the Dallas Cup against all other teams from around the world, such as Barcelona and Japan U-18 National team.

David has always been an Arsenal fan all his life. Obviously he is going to single-handedly dominate our family soccer team preference and he started that yesterday by bringing us to our very first live Arsenal (Youth) game against Club Bollivar. Arsenal won 3-1. We certainly hope that in the future baby won't be a fan of other rival team such as MU or Chelsea :)

 

TOP: Connor Henderson, Emmanuel Frimpong. BOTTOM: Roarie Deacon, Josh Rees

the belly bump.

A lot of you have been asking for the belly shot, so here we go. I probably should have posted these earlier since I've been taking the pictures throughout the stages. I just haven't had the time to compile them. I've been wearing the same outfit for the photos with the same pose as well so it's easy to compare it week by week :) I only post pictures starting week 15 since I barely have any belly bump on my first trimester!

Right now is week 22, and nausea + vomiting have been subsided a lot. I love that! I still feel a bit queasy during the night, but it's not that bad. I have more energy lately and probably should start exercising again. Exercise was almost impossible for me during the first trimester.

Also, baby has been moving and kicking a lot lately, probably since week 20. I love feeling the flutters! It's such a strange, wonderful sensation. Poor David hasn't been able to feel it from the outside because the kicking/movement hasn't been that strong.

Week 15

Week 17

Week 20

Week 22

it's definitely a...

Can you read the teeny tiny text that our sonographer put in the sonogram pic?

my weird pregnancy changes.

I hate the smell of Irish Spring soap that my husband used. I used to like it and now I think it's too strong and makes me gag.

I have a supersonic smelling power. And I truly don't like this.

I don't enjoy seafood that much anymore.

I didn't like chicken before, but now that's what I order whenever I go dine out.

I eat lots of fruit now. And I truly love and enjoy eating fruits. Not so much before pregnancy.

I can't stand Food Network. Can't watch any food-related commercial either. I haven't been watching Food Network for almost 2 months now. I used to watch it everyday!

I hate the smell of cooked rice. I'm not so fond of rice, too, now. I prefer other starches like potato or noodle.

love at the first sight.

I finally saw my baby, and I fell in love!

We were literally counting down the days for our OB appointment and we were SO disappointed that the OB office was closed yesterday (our appointment day!) due to the snow/ice storm. It's been a terribly icy week and I don't blame them. I kinda expected that and they were very courteous enough to call us and let us know the day before that they were most probably going to be closed on Wednesday.

This morning, they called us and they were able to have me come in the afternoon! I was so excited and forgot about the whole snow storm deal.

We like our OB so far. She seemed to be a really nice person. She seemed confident and genuine. It was such a quick appointment, though. I guess they probably had to fit a lot of patient from yesterday to today's time, so I felt a bit rushed, but no big deal. She did a vaginal ultrasound, which was uncomfortable, but at this point I'd do anything to see my baby on the screen :)

And there he/she was.

It was a little surreal. I could only look at the screen but at the corner of my eyes, I could see David smiling wide and beaming. He didn't hide his joy and so did I.

Our OB said that our baby is healthy and has excellent heart rate. SO glad and relieved to hear this, considering I'm not sure if my daily diet has been good enough for baby lately (although I never miss taking my prenatal vitamin, no matter how sick it makes me feel). I don't know the heart rate measurement for sure, which reminds me I should probably ask next time. Well, she probably did mention it at some point but it was all a bit blurry since I paid attention to the screen most of the time :)