Week 16 & 17

I had more brown spotting in week 16, but it ended before the weekend began and I took it super easy this weekend. So far, so good!

Almost every night, I lay in bed and read, but it wasn't until Monday night (14 May) that I put my hand on my stomach and was surprised to feel such a large bump! It was surreal to feel from my ribcage down and up over this bump that felt foreign and back down to my pelvic bone. I still just look fat when I'm standing or sitting, but I guess lying down moves all the pre-existing squishiness to the back! Lol

Had a check up week 17 and I gained 3 lbs!! Now I know I'm supposed to gain weight in pregnancy, and I know 3lbs in 17 weeks isn't bad, but I'm still super paranoid about the weight gain! Doc said I should only gain 15lbs throughout the whole pregnancy due to my high starting weight! I'll continue to try and walk or elliptical every day, but I have a feeling that might get harder with the summer heat. I'll try my best to be the cute pregnant woman at the gym!!

16 weeks!

I survived Gold Cup weekend preggers! I have to admit it was pretty hard skipping the mimosas and I got kinda bored in between the horse races, but I had fun messing with the drunk people and people watching in general.
I've had a couple more bloody noses so I've been taking allergy medicine to reduce the number of sneezes per day.
Oh, and I literally got huge over the weekend. I wore my normal work pants all last week and then when I went to get dressed this morning... No can do! Good thing Lauren dragged me to the Leesburg outlets on Sunday because I picked up two pairs of maternity dress pants and I had to wear one today! Then I was getting tagged in all these pics from Gold Cup on Saturday, and I looked like a cow :( (don't bother trying to stalk, I denied tagging of the sideways pics of me) I'm not sure how long it takes to get used to getting bigger for the sake of a baby, but I'm not there yet. It doesn't help that I feel like people are constantly analyzing and scrutinizing how I look and how big I am. I've never been so self conscious in my life! And I have 5 months to go! So to counter the first bad eating weekend I've had since being pregnant, I had a bagel thin with light cream cheese for breakfast, a salad for lunch with some yogurt and I'll find something healthy to make myself for dinner tonight. So take that growing belly, hips, and arms!

Rude!

So I'm at working sitting on what we call our "rolling mushroom" (it's basically a little stool on wheels and they're everywhere) talking to this woman who is VERY lonnnng winded. So really, she's talking and I'm listening. My nose starts to feel runny. I wipe my hand under my nose and see blood! So I politely interrupt her to explain I have a bloody nose and it's okay because it's a weird pregger side effect. She hands me a box of tissues and keeps talking! So I'm sitting on this uncomfortable mushroom with a tissue shoved up my nose nodding at her while she goes on and on. Four tissues later, I get her to wrap up her venting and go back to my desk in pure shock that she didn't let me go to the restroom. So I didn't feel bad at all that I left my bloody tissues in her trash can. :)