Week 15

I am almost 4 months through my pregnancy, though it feels like a lot more!  I can't believe how slow the last few months have gone.  I really hope it speeds up or this is going to be a very long pregnancy.  I am once again stuck in the attitude of wanting to get done with this stage and on to the next as quickly as possible!  It seems like my whole life has felt like one long wait.  I'm still trying to remind myself to appreciate each week as it comes, though I haven't been very successful at that.

I am very glad I am through the first trimester.  I never actually vomited (due to morning sickness at least), though I felt queasy through about week 8.  I know I'm lucky that it went away that early.  I'm still feeling very tired though.  I go to bed at about 8:30 every night and sleep until at least 7am!  Supposedly I should start feeling more energetic and get that "pregnant glow" soon.  My biggest complaint these days is backache.  Some days I can barely walk by the time I leave work to go home.  I don't want to take any medication if I can help it, so I'm suffering through it without any tylenol.  It seems that the more I sit at my desk, the worse the pain is.  So I try to have good posture and get up once in a while, though standing and walking makes my back hurt too.  I still have to get up about a million times a night to go to the bathroom.  I think that particular symptom is permanent- or at least will last a little longer.

There are some good things about the pregnancy- last week I actually felt the baby move for the first time!  I'm absolutely sure that's what it was because it was in the exact right spot.  I felt it right on the hard spot where I can feel my uterus.  It just felt like a little butterfly or maybe a tiny fish swimming around.  I was at work at the time, so I just took a moment to realize that's what it was and then I went on with my work.  I have only felt it once or twice since then.  I know that very soon I will feel the baby moving stronger and more consistently.  I'm excited for that time- and especially excited for when Daniel can finally feel the baby move.  A few nights ago he pulled out our stethoscope (yes, we actually have a stethoscope) and tried to listen to the heartbeat.  He thought he heard it, but I'm not so sure.  We have our 16-week appointment next Wednesday, and I'm sure we'll hear it then.  I'm also hoping that we might get an ultrasound and possibly could find out the sex of the baby!  I'm going to ask anyways.  I know we will find out for sure on April 18 which is our full anatomy scan.  I'm very excited for that appointment, even if we already know the sex.  We will get to see our baby in 3D and make sure all its organs are developing correctly.  It's amazing how badly I just want this baby to be healthy.  So far, so good!

There are other exciting things going on in our lives now.  We are in the process of buying our house from Daniel's parents.  We were able to arrange it so that we don't have to make a down payment.  This is mostly due to Daniel's incredibly generous parents who are selling us the house for slightly less than it's actually worth.  They will still make all the money back they have invested, so they're happy too.  We are so lucky that our house has actually appreciated significantly in the 2 1/2 years since his parents bought it. Just another reason to love Denver!  But since we are buying the house that means money is a little tight this month.  Daniel has been very stingy about letting me buy maternity clothes.  I don't think he quite understands how depressing it is to put on clothes that looked perfectly fine a few months ago and they make you look like a fat cow.  So far he has allowed me to buy 5 shirts and 2 pairs of pants.  I'm thinking that's not really going to last all summer, so eventually he'll have to allow me to buy more.  Or maybe I'll just go buy more without him knowing.  Shopping for maternity clothes is not nearly as much fun as I thought it would be.  There are LOTS of women out there who are mothers, and every single one of them was pregnant at some point.  Unfortunately, retailers still don't believe that there's enough of a market out there to create more than about 2 shirts and 2 pairs of pants to choose from.  So I have found myself running from store to store, trying on everything they have and liking about 1 in 5 things I try on.  And it seems that we live in a "dry spot" for maternity stores.  No Motherhood Maternity near us, or an Old Navy with maternity clothes.  Just a Pea in the Pod which is ridiculously overpriced.  I did, however, get to shop there because my incredible sister sent me a gift card :-)

So now I'm just counting down the days until we find out if we're having a little Rosen boy or a little Rosen girl!  And then I'll be counting down the days until the annual Rosen family cruise on May 7.  So excited for summer!!