Diets, Food and Everyday Life!

Here I am 21lbs up and 23 weeks pregnant! Althought to me I don’t really think I look like I have gained 21 lbs.

From Baby Hoekzema

I couldn’t figure out what to do with my arm so I was in the process of moving it up out of the way, lol.

From Baby Hoekzema

I look strange from this angle and defiantly big.

From Baby Hoekzema

I look much smaller when my belly isn’t exposed. I just bought a prego bikini for our honeymoon trip to Puerto Rico and I might have to snap some pics with it on to show you and or show me.

I just got back from the 18 week ultrasound and we are having a beautiful very active baby boy!

To narate the pictures below the top left is a picture is him laying on his back you can see his head and belly. The top right picture is a picture of him sucking his thumb with one hand and punching with the other. The bottom left picture is a picture of his spine and head from behind him. The bottom right picture is a picture of him looking at the ultrasound wand, that is why his face looks like a skelton!

I love boys and am very excited to bring baby Xander or James into this world!

Holy cow, 17 weeks already well really I’m 17weeks and 3 days. We are having our ultrasound to find out the sex and make sure the baby is all in good order on Wednesday the 16th. I am really hoping for a girl, but any baby is going to make me happy!

D had a wonderful time over the 4th catching frogs with my 4 year old nephew and so now he is not leaning one way or another on what he would like to have. I think for me a girl would be easier for a first, it means I don’t have to have the discussion with D about what I consider the importance of not circumcision your child. I also think they are easier to diaper and it would be nice to have a girl when we have so many little boys in my family.

Here is my 17 week picture I have gained 11 pounds since I started my pregnancy, and as long as I start to slow down the weight gain I should be ok. The first four months I had gained 3lbs and then in the following month I gained 8 lbs. Yes I did gain 8lbs in one month between June 11 and July 11. So I need to slow it down, I will be writing down what I eat calorie wise for a while and walking everyday for at least 45 minutes to help.

Here I am 14 weeks pregnant, I can’t really tell a difference although I can’t wear almost any of my normal clothes or suck in my belly.  I am still struggling with body image issues, i feel really fat and yea I try not to think about it but sometimes it gets me down.

For comparison here is me at  6 weeks.

So I am 10 weeks now and I am starting to feel a little less tired. I am one of the lucky ones where I didn’t have any pregnancy sickness, but I did get the flu last week. Below are some comparison pictures from week 6 to week 10. I have only gain 2lbs in the whole first 10 weeks so I think I’m doing good. My belly isn’t hard yet but it feels like my whole stomach has moved.

Week 6

Week 10

So yes I’m pregnant, which would explain a few things. When I took a break I had just found out and I was only like 4 weeks along so in order to figure out what I was going to do I needed to take a break.

Well now I am back and besides having a cold from hell I feel good, the picture above is from yesterdays visit to date the baby, our due date is 12.17.08 and I am 8 weeks along.

Both of us are totally excited about it, if you read some of my archives I wanted to be pregnant and D didn’t think it would happen until we put some serious money into infertility(like he once attempted with the x wife). We are both fully dedicated to having this baby in a natural way and setting no matter how much slack we take for it. And we are in love and we are having a baby. My life is going really good at the moment.

So what is the food plan now, are you concerned that you will loose all and just eat what you want to?

Yes in fact I’m nervous about that, so in an attempt to curb the appetite and make sure I don’t gain to much weight I will be continuing to use Calorie Count Plus to track the food I eat on most days. I am planning focusing my consumption on whole grains with lots of fiber, natural lean proteins, low fat dairy products and 8-10 servings of fruits and vegetables per day using 1800-2000 calories until I’m in my 5th month.

But you need to gain weight, how much weight do you want to gain?

Because I was overweight starting the pregnancy I would like to gain no more than 20lbs. I have broken this down to 3lbs during the first trimester putting me at 160 and 17 pounds throughout the rest of the pregnancy maxing me out at 177 by week 40.

I plan on continuing running/walking throughout the whole pregnancy as well as lifting weights through the whole thing. This should help with weight gain as well as easing the delivery.

157ish

The gun show, is returning!

I was between 160-159ish in these pictures.