16 Weeks

We had our 16 week checkup today and everything looks and sounds great.  I finally gained a little weight, a whopping 2 pounds!  I have gone 4 whole days without morning sickness which is awesome!  I'm still battling the whole nausea thing but it goes away soon after a dose of zofran and a diet coke.  The baby's heartbeat today was really fast which makes the dr think it's a girl, but he quickly told us after saying that that he's almost always wrong.  We are scheduled to go back at 20 weeks and have an ultrasound done.  And for the record, as of right now, Chad & I have chosen to NOT find out what we're having!  It's driving our family and friends crazy (which makes it even more great!).  This is the biggest surprise of our lives people!!!  We're so excited and still can't believe this is finally happening.  We've starting stocking up on diapers and that's as prepared as we are for right now.  After the big move we'll definitely be doing some major shopping.  Of course I'm sure there's only so much we can do without knowing the gender of the baby.

As far as cravings go I don't think I've had anything majorly weird (well, sometimes Chad looks at me like I'm crazy), although, I'm starting to think I shouldn't be allowed to grocery shop anymore because I find myself buying odd things.  I drink a lot of V8, like 64 oz bottles last me 2-3 days, I drink 1% milk occasionally (I HATE milk!), diet coke (ew! but it tastes so good and helps settle my stomach), I've tried quite a few times to eat tomatoes and they taste good but the texture makes me gag so they quickly get spit out.  I'm addicted to lemons, limes, sour candy and salt.  Cooking meat of any kind turns my stomach so bad I can't eat, and it doesn't taste good to me anyway so I mostly avoid it.  The thought of eggs, bacon, or chocolate is disgusting to me and I'm a freaking chocoholic people!  My guilty pleasure is chips and salsa, chunks and all (which is huge for me).  I swear I've gone through at least a dozen bottles of salsa and who knows how many chips.  I can't get enough of it!  Since my 2 visits to the er 4 weeks ago I've done a complete 180.  I went from barely eating, to not eating at all, to OMG I CAN'T GET ENOUGH!  So I was really surprised I'd only gained 2 pounds.

Pregnancy is so weird for me to think about.  All of the changes going on with my body just freak me out:

-- 4 months of being sick to my stomach (I really hope that I'm done now).  It went from just nauseated to morning sickness, to all day thought I was going to die, back to morning sickness, and now just a little nauseated here and there if I'm not constantly stuffing my face with food.

-- Acne like you would not believe...it's out of control and I'm about ready to cry.  I've never had to deal with it my entire life and now, oh my!

-- Eating drives me nuts!  Something finally sounds good so I'll eat and 4 or 5 bites in I'm so full I feel like I'm going to pop.  20 minutes later I'm starving so bad it makes me sick to my stomach.  I can't win!  I try to snack all day long but I'm just not a snacker, it's hard, plus it's hard being gluten free.

-- I swear I have to go pee every 45 minutes, especially at night, I miss sleeping all night long.

-- I have zero energy (I'm SO thankful I have a desk job).  I get exhausted so easily it's annoying.

Other than that, ha ha, life is great!  I can't wait til the end of August when we get to see our little boy or girl on the ultrasound!