Pregnancy Update 2

Last night I slept on the couch and it ended up being pretty comfy.  I slept through the night without waking up.  Not even to go to the bathroom.  I realized that since I’ve been having to go to the bathroom so much, we have to up our toilet paper game.  This morning I woke up at 10am and I wasn’t even sore.  My legs and back felt just fine.  I don’t really want to spend the rest of my pregnancy sleeping on the couch, but it was probably the best night’s sleep I’ve had in a month.  My friend suggested getting a body or pregnancy pillow but I just don’t know if it’s worth buying something that might not work or do anything.  I’d rather spend the money on things for the baby.

My face has cleared up.  I don’t have acne anymore but my eyes look kind of tired and weathered and I often have dry skin on my face.  I also noticed that I don’t shed hair as much as I used to.  I heard that women usually shed one hundred strands of hair a day and you stop shedding while pregnant.  Then after you have the baby you lose all the hair that you would have normally shed so it can seem freaky when it happens, like you’re going bald all at once.  I still shed hair but it seems pretty minimal.  I also noticed that there’s a dark line from my belly button down to where my pubic area is.  The line has actually always been slightly visible on me but I read that while you’re pregnant around week 23 it gets darker.  It’s called linea nigra.  It’s in relation to the pregnancy hormones that darken your areolas.  An old wives tale is that if it only goes up to your belly button you’re having a girl and if it goes past the belly button up to your rib cage you’re having a boy.  Mine actually doesn’t go all the way up to my belly button.  It kind of starts about three inches below my belly button.  I actually googled images of linea nigra and the results are kind of gross.  Take my word for it, it’s not something anyone wants to see.

The Garanimals unisex baby set I ordered from Walmart came today.  There’s so many cute clothes in it!  It’s a great variety set for only thirty five dollars (5 onsies, 4 pants, 4 mittens, 3 gowns, 3 caps and 2 sleepers).  Now we have some really adorable outfits for the baby.  I’m not really sure how many clothes we need for the first three to six months.  I know that he/she going to grow very quickly and that with all the spit up and mess the baby’s going to make I’ll probably have to change his/her outfit more than once a day and do laundry pretty often.  My Pregnancy Newborn Magazine Buyer’s Guide has a table in the back that has a baby steps bare necessities list that tells you all the things you will need and how many of each thing to get.  So I’m going off of that.

The baby moves everyday so I think I’ve definitely gotten used to the feeling.  It never seems to move whenever Joe tries to feel it though.  Joe’s gotten into the habit of just calling our baby Athena.  We still haven’t narrowed down a name for a boy yet.  I kind of thought of some additional maybes, Kyle, Aaron, Luke or Harrison.  Joe doesn’t have any new ones.  I’m pretty set on my top two names for a girl but we were playing God of War and I looked up a bunch of Greek Goddess names and I liked Eris a lot.  There’s also an Aeris in Final Fantasy VII (I actually have a friend who named her daughter Aeris after that character).  I never realized naming our baby would be so difficult.  Joe thinks it’s best to have a list of names picked and then decide when we meet the baby what would be the most fitting.  He says people always end up fitting their names.