14 Weeks

Well here we are, at 14 weeks!
This week has started the morning sickness relief. I've only thrown up one time and I think that's mainly because I tried to brush my tongue one morning. I pushed my non-nauseous luck a little too far.
Still dealing with headaches every day. They normally don't last too long and I can get rid of them by eating... speaking of eating, I had my 4 month doctor appointment yesterday and guess what!? I've only gained 4lbs THE ENTIRE PREGNANCY! and only 2.5 pounds since my last weigh in almost 6 weeks ago.
OMG you have no idea how happy I was to see those numbers not jump too high. It was a definite relief, especially since I haven't been watching what I eat AT ALL.
I know this will change. I had only gained like 15 pounds before my 6th month with Lyric and managed to gain almost 30 pounds in 4 months. 9 of which were gained in a 3 week period (I cried that day- but I had just gotten back from a 7 day cruise and Thanksgiving holidays- but still.) ALL of that to say, I was very happy with this weight gain, and hope to somehow keep it up... but now I have an overwhelming desire to go to Chipotle to celebrate :)
The babies heart rate is in the 140's... I can't remember, do girls have high heart rates and boys have low?? I don't think it always works like that right? Oh, I just googled it and the old wive's tale says lower is boy, but apparently, it's a load of crap.
Baby is doing great though!
And I'm SO excited because I scheduled my sonogram! I will find out what type of anatomy Baby VDP is sportin' on August 20th!
HECK YA! Gosh that doesn't seem very far away... AHH! It's first thing in the morning, so I should have a blog posted ASAP and we will announce the chosen baby names, though we haven't for sure settled on the boys full name, we definitely know what the girl's name is. Except last night I heard a name that I thought was really cool for a boy, so now we are considering if we should go through with our first name for a boy... but I think we are.
Anyways, here is my favorite site's week 14 update.

And here is the classic one:

Think of it this way: You're a third of the way through and baby's a third of the way cooked. Now that the "big stuff" (like skeletal and organ development) is taken care of, your baby starts a period of rapid brain growth, fat buildup and detail work. Highlights this week include:Your baby now has fingerprints! Book 'em, Danno! Believe it or not, he actually created them himself while swimming around in the amniotic fluid. As he moved his hands, the skin on the tips of his fingers formed unique ridges and folds. That's why no one on earth has the same fingerprints, not even identical twins! Cool, right? Baby's arms are now in proportion to his tiny body, but his legs are still on the short size in comparison.Meconium, that tar-like, sticky first baby poop, is now loading up your baby's intestines, which means you might want to set aside a bottle of olive oil, one of the few things that will get the gooey poop off of baby's bottom. Your baby continues to gain new and impressive skills such as practicing and controlling voluntary muscle movements (this will help him fling food across the room later in life). Your tiny dancer's movements are no longer the jerky, uncontrollable twitches of yore—he now moves with graceful control. Your baby now weighs about an ounce and is the length of a flip phone, or roughly 3.5 inches—he's tripled in size from a mere three weeks ago! Luckily, you haven't done the same.

So now enters the fun part of pregnancy! The part where I get my energy back, where other people besides me and my pants notice that my belly has a baby in it, and the best part: NO VOMIT!

Goodness the last few months have felt soooo long in the fact that I never thought I would feel good again, but then have gone by relatively quickly.