17 Weeks Pregnant

Oh baby, this belly has officially popped out!  I am full on preggars now!  It literally happened overnight.  I came to work Monday looking sort of pregnant and Tuesday morning, people starting rubbing my hard belly because it was so obvious.  This is a picture of me last week (I forgot to post it) but the belly is much rounder now!

This week our sweet baby is the size of a turnip.  He/she can hear a lot more, his/her skeleton is hardening, and the umbilical cord is growing stronger and thicker.  We go to find out the gender of the baby in 8 days.  Mark is terrified it will be a girl.  I have changed my tune and am truly unsure of what it will be.  I wish those 8 days would fly by for I am ready to know if this is a girl or a boy!

My weekly e-mail said my dreams would become very vivid and they really are!  I had one horrible nightmare this week that woke me up twice.  I couldn't stop thinking that the baby (it was a girl in my dream) was already here and I chose to sleep instead of feeding it.  I kept waking up in a panic over the fact that I neglected to feed my child - it was horrible!

No real food cravings still though I still love drinking my orange juice in the morning and having fruit as a snack.  For some reason, fruit tastes like candy to me these days!  That never happened before!  Not to say I am not still enjoying some real sweets too....

 These 17 weeks have been really enjoyable.  I really wouldn't know I was pregnant except that I am really tired at the end of the work day and am growing a bump!