16 Weeks

Here are my thoughts on being pregnant with only one child: Piece. Of. Cake.

Sorry, no offense to the singleton moms reading this. I realize that every person and every pregnancy is different. Some women have really difficult pregnancies even with only one child. I know that. But for me, this pregnancy has been so incredibly easy that I often forget that I'm pregnant at all.

I'm in my second trimester now and I feel great! Even the first trimester went really smoothly though. I had only a handful of days where I experienced bad nausea. Even then, I never actually threw up- just felt like I wanted to all day.

I have been pretty tired but since I'm not working 50 hours a week like I was when pregnant with twins, I have been able to rest during the day. If I'm feeling too tired, I just take a nap with the boys and I wake up feeling much better. I haven't been stressing about the housework. As long as it doesn't look like a toy bomb went off in the living room and I can get dinner on the table, I'm happy.

A few things are the same. I am craving fruit and cereal, exactly like last time. Which is funny because I rarely eat cereal when I'm not pregnant. I lived off of Special K while pregnant with the boys. Now that we're on a tight food budget though, I can't spend $5 a box for it and I have to wait for it to go on sale... boo. I go shopping each Wednesday and our fruit bowl on the counter is heaping full when we get back from the store. But between the boys and I, it's usually empty by Tuesday afternoon.

I told my doctor that I was feeling fantastic this time around and she just laughed and said it was because I don't have double the amount of pregnancy hormones surging through my body this time. Whatever the reason, I'll take it!

I have gained 5 pounds in 16 weeks, much less than I had gained with twins by this point but I swear I look farther along this time around. I guess that's what happens when it's your third and you carried twins last time. My abs never did recover from that. Oh well. So what if I'm already wearing maternity pants....

I will post a baby bump picture soon, I can't upload pictures to my computer anymore so I need to wait until Brandon's not using his... but those times are few and far between these days.