I've done a little housework, but mostly I have been puttering around on the interwebs. I should be napping. Or cleaning. Oh, shit. I was going to bake a cake for the Moose...and he will be home within the hour. Guess I will get onto that.
But first some ultrasound pics from my appointment two days ago:
The face/head in the middle picture freaks me out. Made me wish I had said no when the tech offered a 3d pic really. Stuff of nightmares. The bubs was really wiggly so it took forever to get the measurements they needed. But the scan was "perfect" according to the midwife and I am within normal parameters for Down's Syndrome. I will have to wait a bit more to get the actual calculated risk.
Still no weight gain...although I haven't been on the scale for a few days so I can't guarantee that (the beer belly is very pronounced however). Also, I am a bit worried that I am not eating enough. I had been cutting back for so long before getting pregnant, and so I feel like I am eating more now, but maybe it still isn't enough considering I have a very physical job. I suppose the only way to figure it out is to calorie count for a few days and see what I am actually getting. People who know I am pregnant and those who don't keep telling me I have lost weight. Eh, I am probably doing fine and am just paranoid. I eat when I am hungry, which is all the freaking time now. I am so food obsessed. A few days this week I could have worked more than eight hours in the vineyard, but I ran out of food and had to go home to eat something (my workday's food is about 3-4 pieces of fruit, yogurt, a museli bar and a sandwich...the museli bar is the addition since pregnancy). But I do have a problem with juice and fizzy drinks. I am addicted. I drank 1 litre of tomato juice on Sunday. And polished off the cranberry juice Monday. Sometimes I am good and pick the sparkling water to be my fizz of choice, but I have had more soda than I ought to and that needs to end now. I miss beer. So. Much.
Um...did I have anything else to say? Probably not. Better go make that cake before I forget again. Banana cake since I have a shite load of bananas in the freezer. Yum.
Wonderful news! congratulations on the 2nd trimester. I can still clearly remember the day of our scan and when we were in the second trimester - it felt like the whole world had shifted a bit (in a good way). I wouldn't worry about the weight; it's normal to not put on weight in first trimester (and healthier too I think). My weight oscillated so much the first few months I gave up monitoring it. If you can eat well despite the nausea you are doing great! hope the cake turned out well ;-)
ReplyDeleteIt probably isn't anything to worry about, but I suppose I must worry about something. The cake turned out like every cake I have ever baked...burnt on the outside and raw in the middle. I blamed the oven.
DeleteFrom what I've read, you're only supposed to put on between 1-5 lbs. your first trimester. And overweight women in general aren't supposed to gain more than 11-20 lbs. total. Keep in mind that your metabolism is higher with bubs on board, so even if you're eating the same as what you were before, you're burning it faster. Congrats on making it to the second trimester!
ReplyDeleteYeah I think I am just worried that I am not eating enough with bubs on board. At the end of the day I think back on what I've eaten and it really doesn't seem like much.
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