bare nakey Apollo!

haha i just have to share this because you can tell how big Apollo has grown over the last 9 months!  He went from 4 lbs 3 oz to 10.5 oz!  not bad considering he lost 1 lbs 2 days after he was born.  so he is growing by an average of almost a lbs a week. i am a happy mommy :)

19 weeks & counting

Today I am officially 19 weeks and 2 days pregnant!  In 5 days I will be halfway through my pregnancy, ha!  The funny thing is we only learned we are pregnant 3 weeks ago. :)

Let's see, not a whole lot happened over the last few days except that my appetite has been kicking in.  I am trying my best not to eat everything I want and for a big fat knocked up lady, that's the most difficult feat!   I try to drown myself with 12 glasses of liquid a day to keep my increasing appetite from overtaking my disciple.  I am just very happy though that I do not eat as much rice and bread anymore than I do when I was back in Manila.

Then again, my appetite is not my biggest problem right now.  I am still overly constipated.  There are a lot of days when i would feel that I need to go, then I'd be sitting on Ryan's throne (that's what we call our john) for almost half an hour, with nothing.  But I know something is hanging in there!  I consulted Dr. McAmis today about it and he said I could take up to 2-3 Colace or stool softener capsules a day.  I already took two today and Ryan bought me some more prune juice to help with my bowel movement.  Seriously, this is the only time that I would love to fart my heart out. (who doesn't actually? haha).

Well other than that, our boy is starting to move more inside.  Since i am only 4 and a half months, yous till cannot feel it from outside, but definitely feel awhole lot from the inside of my belly.  It is right what they say that it feels like butterflies fluttering OR someone tickling you from the inside.  Ryan is so anxious to feel the movement but it would take another 2 months to feel it from outside my tummy.

Yesterday, my lower abdomen is cramping like I have a period and the sides of my legs are tired as hell too.  I learned from some of the literature that I have been reading that they are ligament pains and normally occurs on the 19th week of pregnancy.  According to what I read, as your uterus grows larger, the round ligaments that support it must stretch. Occasionally, these stretched-out ligaments will cause a sharp pain or a dull ache in your lower abdomen, usually on one side or the other. I mostly notice the discomfort when I change positions suddenly or get up from a chair or bed. It's discomforting and most of the time, the best way to just take the discomfort away is to lay still or get some rest.

Today, Ryan bought the first baby book for our little boy.  We both love to read and we would love for our baby to love books too.  Everytime we are in the store, over the last couple of weeks, we realize that very soon, we will be going to the aisle that we normally do not go to over the last several years - the infant section!  And even though I still have a good 20 weeks to go, I know that time will just fly so fast, the next thing you know, I'd be looking down my soaked feet while yelling "my water bag just broke!"

Mr. Pregnant Herron

So apparently since I am farther along in the pregnancy, I am over the phase (1st trim) where I get all that funky things going on in my body.  Apparently, without me noticing, I did go through that period where I feel sick at some days, my body aches, tender breasts, cramps, twice I even threw up!  I have been tired and sleepy most of December and January and I keep blaming the weather for it!  Then there is also the unpleasant fact that I have been constipated every week for the last two months.  Not happy about that but thinking about it now, those are my pregnancy symptoms!  Then again the stupidest thing is I missed my period 3 months in a row, WHICH!  WHICH!  Again I am going to defend, did not surprise me at all because I have always had irregular menstrual cycle.  So, I have an excuse haha.

Well, now that we know we are expectant parents, Ryan and I have been more conscious of what's going on with my body... including his haha.  I have been noticing that Ryan's probably carrying the grudge of going through some of my symptoms.  Sort of like sympathy pregnancy.  :)

He eats.  I mean he EATS.  ALOT.  The other night he cannot recall getting up in the middle of the night, half-asleep, and eating the last piece of banana nut bread.  The following morning I told him about it and he cannot remember haha.  But then Ryan is the type who likes to munch in the middle of the night, something that he does since he's a little kid.  But this time around, he has A huge appetite.  Which works well for me because I am not the one gaining all the weight.  Ha!


He is more GAS-sy than ever!  Well he has always been a farter (and not ashamed of it haha, its a good feeling I cannot blame him!) but his flatulence over the last couple of days is ATOMIC!  haha  Again, I have been super constipated over the last few weeks I cannot even muster a teeny tiny fart.  HE does it for me haha.

I am pretty happy though that his testosterones have not start kicking in.  Sometimes I have mood swings and go on this worried mode just because everything is happening so fast, but nothing too catastrophic.  We are pretty happy that I have been on better moods most of the time.  HE is on a great mood ALL the time which makes me happy about it too.  Can you believe it if mood swings starts kicking in and he starts to panic and his testicles starts hurting while we are in the delivery room?  Nah-uh. not the kind of sympathy pain I am looking forward to, I don't want him to walk out on me haha.  I don't think he will but I really do not understand how sensitive a man's golf balls are when it starts to hurt.  HA!

Well, other than those sympathy symptoms, Ryan is definitely an excited daddy.  Last night he ask me if I think he will be a great father.  I told him, you know what, you already are. :)