Big heart!
Yesterday I had my second prenatal appointment. Was short but incredible! I got to hear my little baby’s heart beat!!! I was afraid the doctor was going to tell me that he could hear 2 heart beats, since my Mother is a twin and my grand grandmother had twins… besides that my belly is popping out a lot and people tell me that it is too big. Thanks God (for now) he says that they is only one heart beat (or what he could listen to) and he assure that my belly is perfect for my size, so now I can breath…. All my blood test came out perfect and I am ready to rock and roll for the next 6 months and ½. Like I said my visit to the doctors was short, my doctor had to run out because they call him to do a delivery…. One day will be me calling him….
I can hardly believe that inside my belly I am carrying a whole human being, another person with brain, heart and feelings! It is amazing that a peanut size baby can bring me so much joy, happiness and anxiety at the same time. I can not even imagine how I would feel once my baby starts to move or even once I finally get to meet him/her. I don’t understand how people could do drugs while pregnant or drink alcohol…. The feeling I experienced yesterday I never felt it before… how could someone don’t have emotions or love?
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Bon appetite!
The last few weeks I started to notice an evident increase of appetite. What usually used to make me full, now... it does not! My baby is hungry! I guess
 and I enjoy eating more than ever. Usually I have a yogurt for breakfast with same Argentinean pastries or a bagel with cream cheese or just toast (French bread) with butter and jelly; by mid-morning I am starving again and I need something, anything! At lunch time (around 1:30 pm at my work) I am just desperate to eat! Everything looks good to me  . Then I do not fell hungry until night time, when I eat like a regular person... night-time makes me tired not hungry. I am 9 weeks and 4 days and on my first appointment I weighted 126 pounds, which I was 6 pound over my regular weight which it is 120 lb (all my life) and now I weight 130 lb. meaning that from week 6 to week almost 10 I gained 4 lb!!! SCARY! I am eating healthy, lots of vegetables and I do my best to eat fruits (fruits are not my favorite thing) I eat fish only once a week, I eat chicken, meat, pasta (always wheat) I am not eating many sweets like chocolates, because I am not craving candies or I just do not fell like eating them. I am eating vegetable soup (home made from my dad) almost once a week (it helps me go to the bathroom) I do not drink milk, but I have a yogurt every morning. I am eating cheeses and hard boil eggs with my beet salad. I love to make my boil potatoes and butternut squash with lots of olive oil (one of my favorites!). I really try to take care of myself and baby. The doctor told me I can not eat ham (deli meat) and I am making a big effort to avoid these… specially the ham and cheese empanadas that I love to death! I can not drink café con leche and believe me, this is the biggest one, all my life I had breakfast with my super double shot café con leche… NOW I can’t! NOT EASY, not easy. What scared me the most was my smoking habit… miraculously was the easier one. I don’t even think I will smoke again! For what? I do not need it! I always thought that after 11 years of smoking when the time for a baby would came it was going to be difficult to quit, well… it was not!
So baby you are having some good taste of what life is!
See you soon
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