Week 22

Well, here I am at week 22, and I wanted to put down some thoughts as to what is going on with me being pregnant.

I have had this all along - watery mouth. Sometimes when I am at services, and looking down to read, that drool may just leap out of my mouth. This is a very odd sensation. It happened more at the beginning, it seems, but still happens.

Now I have been getting yuck mouth, after everything I eat. Except red grapes, as far as I know. These seem to leave my mouth tasting fine. But EVERYTHING ELSE leaves a bad taste. This began a week or 2 ago. I eat a lot of gum, and mints now. Course I still don't eat large portions at once, but what I call small/normal sized meals, more often. Which is pretty much how I have always been.

I do love red grapes. I ate 1.66 lbs yesterday, alone. I know this because I bought them yesterday and ate them all!!

I do crave alot of fruit. I have to have my large glass of milk and large glass of OJ (tropicana pure premium, no pulp, with calcium!) every morning. This and my vitamin begins my day. Also, fills me up until about 10:30 or so.

I have been eating canned peaches and pears with cottage cheese, however I will not buy cottage cheese any more, because there is very little calcium in it, and it seems like a waste of food intake.

I eat alot of mandarin oranges, was eating alot of clementines as well. I drink Tree Top Apple juice, more often before than now, because I drink alot of orange juice.

My lastest "thing", and I would not call this a craving, because I have yet to send Adam, or myself out at odd hours to get this item, but I do eat it several times a week, is Braums 96% fat free vanilla frozen yogurt in a waffle cone. Large size please. Not only does this fulfill a cold sweet desire, but a good dose of calcium as well. And as much as I am loving my once peeling and flaking nails, growing longer and harder, they are getting a bit too long to take out my contacts! So I have been keeping my right thumb and forefinger trimmed some, as to not scratch my eyeball.

I am loving my materninty clothes. They are baggy and comfy!! However, the granny sized panties I am now wearing, are beginning to roll down the front onf my belly a bit. I can tell that I am growing more because of this. I got these all on 75% off clearance at Super Target, so the quality may not be the best. They also don't have hardly any elasticity, except for a small (super tiny) thin band of plastic like material (the clear kind you find in strapless bras and tops that you hang on hangers) around the leg hole and waist. This which has come out of a couple pairs already, after only a few wears, and so one side has SOME support nad the other leg has none! Don't wear those anymore. Seems to happen in the black pair, more so than any other color, which makes no sense to me....

Anyways, I am in week 22. This is very exciting. The baby has been getting more and more active in the last week, and sometimes keeps me up at night. I fear this trend will continue for the next year or better. But, it is nice. I have been trying to keep track of when he becomes active to see it there are patterns.

I do notice that around 9:30pm, he becomes active. And last night at 3am, he was doing gymnastics. This morning at 9am ish, he was swimming laps in the pool. I make these assessments based on the way it feels when he is moving around. One day a week ago or so, I swear it felt like he was shuffling cards, the way the motion and fluttering was happening all at once!

Well, I am glad to have this time to write these things down. I will try to continue doing this on a weekly basis, at least!