Baby Fever

I'm on this website called BabyCenter.com and it has a forum for the month that your baby's due so there's all these ladies on there who post different stuff and different questions. Anyway this one lady posted this link which had a quiz on how your labor and delivery would go. And the italicized is what it predicted.
http://pregnancyandbaby.sheknows.com/pregnancy/baby/Madame-Zaritska-predicts-your-birth-experience-1.php

The day you deliver, outside will be warm. Your baby will arive in the early morning. After a labor lasting approximately 4 hours, your child, a girl, will be born. Your baby will weigh about 4lbs, 14oz, and will be 17 1/2 inches long. This child will have medium amber eyes and a little patch of auburn hair.

That sounds dreamy! Guess we'll see if it's a boy or a girl in a little over a week, but everything else seems possible! Except 4lbs seems awfully small.

I did have a dream last night I had the baby early but everything was ok. And in my dream I was trying to keep it warm because I know that babies need to be kept warm for the first little while outside of the womb. I kept trying to keep it's head covered with one of those light-weight foil type blankets. It looked just like a newborn! All my baby dreams I've had the baby is always older. Then I realized that I didn't know if it was a boy or a girl so I laid it in its crib and peeked at it and it was a boy! He was totally cute! And he had long toes sort of and I remember thinking they were just like Zack's. That particular dream for some reason was so real and it made me so excited! I can't wait to meet our baby. As far as my dream predicting the sex goes though, who knows. I've had a ton of dreams where I have a boy, but yet a ton of dreams that I have a girl. At this point it's a complete mystery to me.

But the baby is moving all the time now! I was scared last Tuesday because I slipped and fell on the ice but really I only hit my tail bone (which is still sore). I was scared I hurt the baby. I called the doctor and they told me what to look for, and everything ended up fine. But ever since that day the baby has really been squirmy. I love it. I hope that Zack's able to feel it soon. I'm not really sure when that is supposed to happen. I think my belly needs to get bigger though before that can happen. But my last post was me complaining about not having a belly and then fate caught up to me about 3 days later and gave me one! I finally have a belly to hang on to. I'll post a picture in a week or two and give it time to get a little bigger.

I've also been getting a small case of shopping fever where I really want to go buy a bunch of baby stuff. I did buy a couple of tops from Target.com and a diaper bag from Overstock.com and a new B-Buckle. But I stopped myself after that. So I started a registry as a type of personal wish list. It has boy stuff and girl stuff and after we know I'll go through and weed out the opposing sex. But making a registry is a great way to satisfy your shopping urge; you're still shopping, just not spending.

Oh and I found something for Zack that maybe I'll try to get him next month. It's a cargo jacket made my dadgear.com and it has secret pockets inside to hide diapers and wipes and even a pocket for a changing pad!

And it looks like a normal jacket! He already has like 2 jackets that look like this, so I hope it'd be something he'd use. I hope.

Wish I had a Bump! (16w5d)

I'm just 4 months pregnant now but really wish I could get out of the "in-between" stage of my tummy. I'm too big for my pants (well I can still button them but it's really, really uncomfortable) but not showing at all to the untrained eye to justify maternity clothes! So I've been using this thing called a B-buckle given to me by my friend Beth which connects your two front belt loops on your jeans with a cute strap of fabric so you can leave your jeans unbuttoned and have been wearing my looser tops so the help hide that. But I guess any day now I'll "pop out" with my baby bump. They say it happens all of a sudden, and I think that's how I'll be.

Also, I have to pee literally ALL THE TIME (sorry for the TMI) and have a hard time getting full. I had another doctor's appointment on the 12th of this month and have gained 2 lbs which is great since apparently last time I lost 1.5 lbs. That was weird because girls with morning sickness are the ones who usually lose weight. I've been very blessed not to experience any of the horrible symptoms of pregnancy so far, only the small annoyances (i.e. eating eating eating, peeing peeing peeing, not too big but not small enough.)

But some exciting news is we have an appointment in about 2 1/2 weeks for our full OB ultrasound, which is when we ought to be able to determine the baby's gender! I'm sooooo soooo excited for that! I'm not impatient though, but exited. Boy or girl this baby will be loved and spoiled. My gut feeling tells me it's a girl but don't quote me because what do I know about being pregnant? And only because I feel so strongly that this is a girl will it be totally odd to find out if it's a boy but I will be equally excited! Little Charlotte Gwen or little Zackery Cash is on his/her way!

I haven't had any cravings, or any weirdness at all. If you ask Zack though he'll tell you he hasn't ever seen so many empty cold cereal boxes in the house. Hey, I like cereal! My eating schedule goes something like this: Cereal for breakfast, some type of sandwich for brunch, then my lunch, then a snack when I get home from work, then dinner, then most of the time some other little snack before bed. I can't believe I've only gained 2 lbs! I'm not complaining though. I hope I'm not one of those women who just let themselves really blow up just because they're pregnant. I know I'll gain weight that isn't just baby weight. I just don't want it to be excessive.

I just wanted to keep up my posting through this pregnancy for my own reference and also to maybe help satiate my friends' curiosities about pregnancy. Even before I was pregnant I wanted to know EVERYTHING. Anyway, hopefully my next post will have a nice little pregnancy belly picture, or at least tell us the sex of the baby!