Bonjour!
It's official: I'm a porker!
I put on 8 lbs in four weeks.
I have been eating like a bear building up fat for hibernation, so I'm not surprised... just mildly chastened.
And I really really really want pizza or pasta for dinner.
Oh the agony.
Heard baby's heartbeat:150.
And I am just starting to feel the first little pokes and flutters, I think. I don't think I could say definitively just yet, so I won't count them until I'm sure.
Still, nice to have a little evidence that baby is in there and I'm not just becoming a beachball out of the blue!
I feel pink pretty strongly these last few days. I realized this morning that I have been thinking of the baby as a daughter, whether I was conscious of it or not. I think there will be surprise and, in all honesty, a small amount of disappointment if it's not a girl. But I think it's quite possible to feel that twinge of disappointment about the imagined child at the same time as you feel the flutter of excitement about the little being who really is living inside you.
Congratulations to all the new bump identities from today. Please forgive that I am having trouble keeping up with all the Big Reveals without pen and paper!