25 weeks today. Baby in 15 weeks seems like no time at all. My Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy book tells me this is the first week of my seventh month of pregnancy. That is crazy. 25 WEEKS PREGNANCY UPDATE Here’s what’s going on with my little pound and a half cauliflower this [...]
Second Trimester
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24 Weeks Pregnancy Update
January 16, 2018 { 74 comments }Today brings 24 weeks pregnant and I celebrated it with a trip to see my parent’s primary care physician here in Florida. Pregnancy-wise, I’m feeling great but today marks four weeks of battling various cold/respiratory ailments. My symptoms were getting worse and not better so I finally caved and saw another doctor today and started an antibiotic. Something has [...]
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23 Weeks Pregnancy Update
January 9, 2018 { 16 comments }I am harboring a lot of sadness over here over the Dawgs loss last night. I’m also feeling some sleepiness since I stayed up past midnight to watch the end of the game! We may not have won but making it to our first national championship game since 1980 is surely something to be proud [...]
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22 Weeks Pregnancy Update: I’m Tired!
January 2, 2018 { 19 comments }So much to share on this 22nd week so let’s hop right to it. 22 WEEKS PREGNANCY UPDATE Baby boy is right around a pound now, coming in around 11 inches and around the size of a coconut. My other app says a papaya! Baby is sleeping in cycles of around 12-14 hours per day. [...]
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21 Weeks Pregnancy Update + Sick in the Second Trimester
December 26, 2017 { 43 comments }I’ll give you a break from all the holiday content and Christmas recaps to pop in with my 21 week update. Don’t you worry, I’ll have my Christmas post up tomorrow! :) I was bummed to miss my 20 week post last week due to being sick because 20 weeks is technically halfway. BUT “full-term” [...]
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19 Weeks Pregnancy Update + 18 Week Anatomy Scan Ultrasound
December 12, 2017 { 91 comments }Tuesdays have become my favorite day of the week because I love moving to a new week of pregnancy. This is going to be a fun update because we had our anatomy ultrasound, which was so cool and also very reassuring. First a note on pregnancy content, when I first announced my pregnancy, I asked [...]
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18 Weeks Pregnancy Update
December 6, 2017 { 53 comments }Today marked 18 weeks pregnant and it’s been fun to be in Florida to share it with my grandmother! Here are baby’s milestones at 18 weeks… Baby is yawning, hiccupping, sucking, swallowing and twisting, rolling, punching, and kicking too. Just wish I could feel it! :) Nerves, now covered with a substance called myelin that [...]
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17 Weeks Pregnancy Update + Pregnancy and Grief
November 28, 2017 { 32 comments }From the outside, pregnancy seems to be a really exciting time in life. While I totally agree that it is and I am thrilled to be pregnant right now, I was completely unprepared for how much pregnancy would stir up my tendency towards anxiety and also reignite my grief regarding my brother’s death last year. [...]
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16 Weeks Pregnancy Update
November 21, 2017 { 52 comments }I’m officially 16 weeks pregnant today, or 4 months. While the change of weeks is always fun, the change of months really feels like a milestone. I have secretly been excited about 16 weeks because baby is the size of an avocado this week. You know that rarely a day passes by that I don’t [...]
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Recent Eats: Beginning of My Second Trimester
November 19, 2017 { 5 comments }Happy Sunday! I’m looking forward to Thanksgiving week. I’m picking up my nieces in Georgia on Tuesday or Wednesday to spend the holiday with us and I just registered for the big turkey trot here in town. It’s a 5-mile race which I think is the perfect distance for a Thanksgiving morning run! I’ll be [...]
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15 Weeks Pregnancy Update + What I Bought at Whole Foods at 9 Weeks Pregnant
November 14, 2017 { 39 comments }Hey, hey! Tuesdays are fun for me these days because they’re the day I move to the next week pregnancy. I’m alway so excited to read about all of the developments going on with the baby week-to-week. I’m not sure if I’ll do these updates weekly or bi-weekly but I thought I’d do one today [...]
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2017 Charlotte Half Marathon Race Recap: Second Trimester Half Marathon
November 12, 2017 { 15 comments }I ran the Novant Health Charlotte Half Marathon yesterday at 14 weeks and 4 days pregnant and had a great race experience! During the race I was trying to count how many half marathons I’ve run in my head and thought it was somewhere around 9-10. I was hoping it was my 10th but it turns [...]
