Week 16
Here I am at 16 weeks! (You can click the pictures to see them larger, if you so desire.) I wanted to start taking pictures of Matt every couple weeks as well. I thought it would be hilarious, but it turns out he does not share my killer sense of humor.
We’ve bid the first trimester good bye and have been happily inhabiting the second trimester for a few weeks now. So far, a vast improvement! I was starting to feel better during week 13, but then I came down with a nasty flu at week 14 that set me back for several days. Once I finally got over that, I began being treated to long stretches of feeling almost…normal? Can that be? And normal is blissful right now.
I still get pretty sleepy around 8:30 p.m., but overall I have much more energy and zest for life. I can now contemplate a future with babies in it with excitement rather than a sense of “why did we think this was a good idea, again?” I have finally discovered that I do have the capacity to coo over frickin‘ adorable onesies (when I was sick, all I could do was dread how much work it would be to wash them). And today I went shopping for some maternity clothes with my mom (thanks for your help, Mom, in all its varieties!) and am ready to embrace my soon-to-be gigantic self.
We’re starting to pack up the house in anticipation of our move. It’s daunting, so I prefer to avoid thinking about it. As far as I’m concerned, we’re just putting all our stuff into boxes as part of our new cardboard-based organization system.
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I know that looks like a good bit of progress since Week 8, but I think it’s more about the vast quantities of food I’ve been eating and less about Lorem and Ipsum. For the past two weeks I’ve realized that I need to eat something every two hours at least in order to keep from feeling sick. Some of those things have been carrots and celery and grapes, but some of them have been cheese and crackers, grilled cheese, and macaroni and cheese. And a veeeerrry small number of those things have been McDonald’s cheeseburgers. The really sad thing is that not much of the food tastes particularly good to me. Frankly, I am entirely sick of food in general, but I need to keep eating lots and lots of it or I feel miserable.
Fortunately, Matt has been nothing short of amazing, coming up with new food ideas and cooking me every last thing I could ever want. (This week he’s making me individual homemade chicken pot pies to take to work to reheat at lunch!) And all this food really is a good thing, because weight gain in the first trimester supposedly correlates to a decreased risk of preterm labor with twins. Of course, that might only hold true for people who gained all their weight with lentils and fruit and skim milk; I’m not sure what the science says about processed cheese food.
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