You're Glowing...

Since discovering that we are expecting our second child, I have ballooned.  I say that while I also SMH in slow defeat.  Twelve pounds.  Twelve pounds in ten weeks.  I hadn't gained twelve pounds by week fourteen with Everly.  With Everly I started at 129 lbs and ended up at 153 lbs.  The doctors were extremely happy.  In this exact moment, I weigh a whopping 143 lbs.  I was beyond convinced that we were having twins.  The morning sickness has been awful, terribly, unsettling to my daily routine.  I haven't been able to keep up the three times a week jogs.  I tried replacing them with longer, slower walks but have discovered the summer heat adds to the vomiting.  I look as though I'm already into my second trimester.  The worst part- being told by the ultrasound tech and the nurse that I am NOT expecting twins, after having made a very big bet with The Hubs about said number of babies growing in my already protruding belly.  I keep telling myself tomorrow you'll walk longer, you'll do 20 entire minutes of yoga, you'll opt for grapes over sauce free pasta and toast.  However, every morning I wake up to an upset tummy that continues to be uncomfortable throughout the day. Today The Hubs forced me to go for a small walk.  Something about my attitude being unbearable and how I said I wanted to start doing something to pull myself out of the constant state of head thrown over the toilet.  

While playing on the computer ... he actually told me that I was still signed into Google, so he could definitely see the crazy searches;

• Can an ultrasound miss a second and third baby?
• Could my pregnancy weight be 90 percent water? 
• How do you stop yourself from peeing while vomiting during morning sickness? 
• If I'm carrying water weight should I really be drinking this much water? 
• How often are twins missed with today's technology? 
• Curbing morning sickness with chocolate?  Is that a thing? 
• Can I be sleeping too much for the baby's growth and development? 
• Hidden twin? 

His response, "accept that you lost the bet and pay up."

Good rule of thumb men, try not to use the word crazy while describing pregnant wife's behavior.  It could be taken the wrong way.

I know, I know.  I've read the "What to Expect when you're expecting" forums and everyone says that with a second baby, the belly tends to show faster.  I've also read that symptoms can drastically change from pregnancy to pregnancy.  I guess, I was just so blessed with putting on the weight slow, having boundless energy and not experiencing morning sickness with Everly... I just assumed my body reacted to the pregnancy hormones well.  Exceptionally well.  While I was pregnant with Everly friends and acquaintances would balked at the idea that I was eight months pregnant; because my belly was high and round.  Also, I swam a lot because Everly was a summer baby during my last trimester.  I have to say, I think that helped so much with labor and building muscle tone for the actual delivery.  Unfortunately, I am way to sick to chance vomiting in a public lane pool right now. Just thinking about the poor lifeguard on duty having to blow her whistle and then make paying customers wait thirty minutes for the chemicals to right themselves is enough to keep me from putting others at risk.  

The most annoying piece of this first trimester puzzle as of now (well aside from my achy cantaloupe breasts) is how the MIL keeps calling to ask me if I've tried; ginger ale, seltzer water, saltine crackers, animal crackers, toast and applesauce.  I know she means well but come on, like I haven't tried the basic Google searches for morning sickness.  It's nice that she calls to check in though, really.  I guess she had a pretty difficult pregnancy with her one and only ( My perfect Hubs) and this is an opportunity for us to bond in a different way.  She also sends recipes for gentle(r) dinners (The Hubs and I adore spicy food).  Texts to make sure that I am eating small meals and snacks throughout the day.  Lets me know on the regular that I "really" didn't put on enough weight with our first so the second is making sure that I do.  She thinks the baby will be a boy. However, I read that girl's steal your beauty so I'm betting on girl again.  Everly gave me the worst case of skin break-outs I've ever had... and yes I'm including teenage puberty.  I ended up having to for-go make up for the better part of pregnancy and relied on false lashes, stock in coconut oil (for my face) and chapstick to get myself through.  In the long run, my face thanked me for a toxic free several months without the concealer, primer and foundation.  Who am I kidding, I still used concealer.  But I did my best to let my pores and skin breathe as much as possible.  

We aren't learning the sex of our baby this go around.  I had wanted it to be a surprise the first time but with the excitement our families wanted to throw a gender reveal party.  A small gathering where we cut a cake to see whether the inside was pink or blue.  It was fun but this time we are going to let it be a surprise.  I'm also curious to see how many gender neutral baby goods we can find that we both actually like (and are really gender neutral).  It will be an entirely different shopping experience to say the least.