Baby News - 18 Weeks!

Wow, time is just flying by! I can't believe I am now in the 5th month of pregnancy and in about a week or so, we will get to find out if it's a boy or a girl! I can't even tell you how excited we are for that fun moment :). We went baby shopping/browsing last weekend which was so much fun! I was in the Girl's section, dying to buy all of the adorable little dresses. Meanwhile, Josh was in the Boy's section, picking out little Michael Jordan jerseys and sports action figures... Can you guess which gender we are rooting for? haha. Seriously though, we would both be just as happy to have a boy OR a girl. It's just fun to dream :). 

Just so you know, I am wearing the same outfit in all of my baby bump pictures because it makes it easier to see the growth/progress and at the end of the pregnancy, I want to make a collage that shows the baby bump from the beginning to the end. So NO, I don't wear the same clothes everyday ;).

At 18 Weeks:

All of my cravings have disappeared and I am now feeling almost completely normal! The baby bump is starting to grow more but I am still wearing all of my normal clothes. I no longer have to deal with nausea/vomiting (Praise the Lord!) and I am really starting to have fun with this pregnancy. 

At 16 weeks I felt the baby move for the first time while I was at work! I was beyond excited and couldn't wait to hurry and call Josh to tell him all about it! Now he/she is moving around quite a bit and on Valentines Day Josh got to feel it too! That was another special moment I will forever remember as one of the happiest moments of my life.

Now that I am starting to show more and am actually feeling the baby move around, it all seems more real to me that I am pregnant. I find myself talking to my stomach all the time and smiling like a fool whenever I feel it wiggle. I'm sure I look like a crazy person but I don't really care. 

The only downside to the past month has been having to tell my managers and coworkers that I am pregnant. I don't know why I am getting such a bad response, but it is really depressing! I mean, come on people, women work and have babies all the time! I am no new exception!