I am now 19 weeks pregnant. Today we go for our ultrasound appointment (in Canada unless there are concerns, standard is one appointment between 18-20 weeks). I have to drink an entire 32 ounces of water by 1:15 PM for an appointment at 2:00 PM. I am not looking forward to it. I can only imagine what my discomfort will be. I have been a little nervous about the appointment. I have heard of friends who have gotten nasty ultrasound technicians, I even had a bad dream (vivid dreams are part of my pregnancy) that I forgot to drink my water before my appointment and I couldn’t find any water anywhere to have.Last Wednesday I started to feel a sharp pain in my lower abdomen (not severe just sharp). Initially I was really concerned and called the midwife office the next morning. After speaking to a midwife, she is pretty sure it is just round ligament pain. For me any type of pain, especially from down there, concerns me because I think it means something is wrong. It continues to happen on and off. Sometimes on my left side, radiating towards the center of me, it feel more like a sharp pain (not really an ache), and it only stays for a little while before it goes away. It can go on and off for a while sometimes. The midwife said currently nothing to worry about, unless it gets worse, starts to feel different, or is accompanied by bleeding.
I am starting to feel like I “look” pregnant or maybe just fat. I asked my husband this morning, because I am wearing a stretchy shirt if I looked too pregnant in what I was wearing. He just laughed and said he wasn’t going to answer. I guess it does sound like a silly question (if he choose to answer it might have been “um you are pregnant” lol), but I am still looking more chubby in the middle than pregnant. So I don’t want people to mistake me for fat instead of pregnant. And I do not really want to be flaunting pregnant yet, as I am not sure who knows and does not in my new office environment.
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February 22, 2008 at 7:57 pm
kimber
Do you know what you are having, I thought you refered to the baby as a boy in the last blog?
February 25, 2008 at 9:44 am
julessilver
Hey Kimber,
No we do not know what we are having. To make it easier and nicer than referring to baby as “it”, or “he or she”, I use “he” to refer to baby in some of my posts. My husband says “she” and I say “he”. I think it comes from that I am hoping for a girl, but expecting a boy. And my hubby is hoping for a boy but expecting a girl.
Might make it confusing but makes sense to us, hehe. I did mention this in the blog post titled “Countdown is on…” on Jan 2, 08 too.
Thanks for the comment!