14 Week Update

Baby's the size of lemon!
Your adorable little fetus is busy with thumb sucking, toe wiggling, and (not so cute but equally amazing) making urine and breathing amniotic fluid as the liver, kidneys and spleen continue to develop. Lanugo (thin, downy hair) is growing all over the body for warmth.

I also hit the 100 day mark! I've officially been pregnant for over 100 days! I can't believe my pregnancy is now 1/3 over. That's a really strange feeling since it still feels so new to me.
I'm still really into fruits and special salads. I snacked on cantelope, kiwi, and strawberries this week. I "pigged out" on 2 Greek salads and a Portillo's chopped salad. YUM! I'm loving these healthy food cravings! I've also been dying for potatoes o'brien any time of the day. I had a suprrise breakfast made by Daddy on Wednesday before work.
After the surprise breakfast, I had my first experience with heartburn. I've had it a few times in the past, but never this bad and I never knew exactly what it was. I have a feeling it was the tiny slice of chocolate cake the night before. Luckily, that went away pretty quickly. But I'm still majorly sick and nauseous every day. It's funny that I wanted this SO badly and I have to be the lucky one who is still getting sick and still tired during second trimester. Any day now...please?

On a positive note, I don't have to go naked anymore! I got a few new pairs of pants that actually fit! Very excited to wear them and show off the bump!

Books

I decided that I'd rather be well-informed with the truth about pregnancy and childbirth rather than shocked when something happens that I'm not expecting. That's why I decided to start reading books to get more information and feel more prepared.

I collected a few over the summer from garage sales and then I also went to the library to pick up my first round of books from there. I'm starting to see the difference between the styles and information in these books and now I'm a little more picky about what I want to read.

First of all, I like the funny & casual books that really tell you the truth like your BFF would. These are easy reads and they tell it how it is. The more clinical books tend to get a little boring after awhile and they all start to sound the same. How many times do I need to read about tender boobs? I also started to see authors' opinions, their styles of parenting and how they differ from each other. I had no idea that these authors would be pushing their parenting style on you! Let's just say that book is never going to be touched again.

So for my first two raves, I wanted to recommend these favorites:
The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy by Vicki Iovine. This is the first pregnancy book I ever read and I loved it! I bought it over the summer and then started reading it again now to refresh my memory. It's hilarious and it tells you all the scary things your doctor never would. I also bought her next edition called The Girlfriends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood so I know this will be good too!

I also heard great things about Jenny McCarthy's Belly Laughs and it lived up to it's raves. I read this whole book in about an hour while I was being lazy in bed. It's very similar to the book above, but a little less detailed. I love that a celebrity is honest enough to tell us all about her scary pregnancy symptoms!

Note to self

The sickness WILL go away soon.