A few weeks ago we announced that we were expecting Baby Kickert #2, you can read about it here. Almost a month has gone by and I have been to tired and\/or sick and\/or busy with life to give a blog update. I decided I needed a format to follow each week so I would be able to update all our friends and family about this baby.<\/p>\n
When my friend Catherine was pregnant, she did a weekly update following a specific questionnaire. I thought it was really fun, but had forgotten about it until just recently. So, better late than never, I am going to attempt to start a weekly update about my pregnancy.<\/p>\n
How far along?<\/strong> I am currently 16 weeks<\/p>\n Total weight gain\/loss? <\/strong>So far I have not gained any weight. I was really sick for the first trimester and am still feeling the effects of it (getting sick at least once a day still). Unfortunately\/fortunately our scale is in kilograms, so it makes weight gain seem even less!<\/p>\n Stretch marks? <\/strong>No stretch marks yet, but I am diligently applying cocoa butter lotion daily. I was fortunate with Mikayla to not have any stretch marks so we are hoping for the same this go around.<\/p>\n Best Moment this week? <\/strong>Mikayla laying on the bed next to me and asking to look at the baby. She leaned over and kissed my belly and started talking to it. So sweet!<\/p>\n Movement?<\/strong> No real movement yet. I have felt some stirrings that could be "quickening", but might be nothing!<\/p>\n Food Cravings: <\/strong>I have had definite aversions to sweet things (so sad!). I have however, had huge cravings for salty things. Specifically, Lay’s plain potato chips! The other night I had a craving for super buttery and salty popcorn.<\/p>\n Gender?<\/strong> No clue yet. Mikayla thinks it is a girl.<\/p>\n Labor Signs?<\/strong> I sure hope not!<\/p>\n Belly Button in or Out?<\/strong> In.<\/p>\n What I miss.<\/strong> I miss drinking multiple cups of coffee a day. I am trying to limit myself to one cup and even that is half regular, half decaf! Just not the same.<\/p>\n What I am looking forward to.<\/strong> Finding out the gender on February 14! We didn’t find out with Mikayla, but for multiple reasons are choosing to this go round. <\/p>\n Weekly wisdom: <\/strong>Prenatal yoga is a lot more relaxing and enjoyable without a toddler "stretching" next to you, even if you have to get up earlier than you would like!<\/p>\n Milestones: <\/strong>Thanks to my dear friend Catherine, I started Prenatal Yoga (Ben and Mikayla refer to it as Baby Yoga though). I start each day with the DVD she sent and am hoping it will help with our epidural free labor!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few weeks ago we announced that we were expecting Baby Kickert #2, you can read about it here. Almost a month has gone by and I have been to tired and\/or sick and\/or busy with life to give a blog update. I decided I needed a format to follow each week so I would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[139,141,142],"class_list":["post-3863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting","tag-baby-kickert-2","tag-pregnancy","tag-weekly-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}