Notable updates from the 18th week:
Energy: Good Days (working, dinner, errands, social activities, productive member of household and generally functional adult) and Bad days (sleeping, eating, perhaps shower OR dishes OR fold a load of laundry) pretty much alternate.
Favorite foods: Chocolate milk. I've already moved on from whipped cream- that was so two days ago. I've also been lusting after peanut butter and Ritz crackers, but alas, we don't have any Ritz crackers. Yet.
Least favorite foods: Anything leafy and green, much to E's (and my) dismay. Don't worry, parental units, I'm still choking some down, so your grandchild will in fact be well nourished. Sadly, this is much less variable than the favorite foods.
Weight gain: Undisclosed. Did you really think that would be a stat?!? But I will say it is a FREQUENT topic of conversation and occasionally tears. (And yes, I know you need to gain plenty of weight during pregnancy, and it's not something to obsess about. Maybe if you tell that to my hormones, they'll believe you.)
Baby H's weight gain: Much more blog-worthy. According the extremely reliable babycenter.com, baby H is currently the size of a bell pepper (5 1/2 inches long from head to bottom, 7 ounces).
Next doctors appointment: In about two weeks. At which time we'll schedule the ultrasound.
Current "finding out" plans: Right now, I think we will attempt to be surprised about the gender. But, I won't be 100% sure until we walk out of the ultrasound still not knowing.
Picture (from last week) :
We first tried to take a picture in a shirt I had used before for pictures- but it has horizontal stripes. When I saw those pictures, we had to delete them. Also, I feel like I still suck my stomach in for pictures. Maybe I should start sticking it out instead? =)
