Well we had the sonogram, and at first the sonographer was saying that the baby wasn't cooperating, she was staying too low or facing the wrong way or something but eventually I guess the sonographer got a good look and decided that our baby was a girl! Needless to say we were very excited! It was a lot of fun watching the baby move on the ultrasound, she moves a lot, which is crazy because I couldn't feel any of it! The cutest thing was when the sonographer focused on her face (looks like an X-Ray so you see the bony structures) and you could see that her thumb was in her mouth and you could see her tiny jaw move while she was sucking on it, too cute!!! We got to take home a DVD of the ultrasound, although we have yet to play it for anyone else, I'm sure our parents would like to see it.
Well my belly officially has the pregnant look, everyone told me it would just happen all of a sudden and everyone was right, I practically woke up one morning with a more definite pregnant belly. I guess I need to get some pictures on this blog.
I'd like to make an amendment to a previous blog, the one titled "Focus on Protein," I believe I wrote that it was good to consume something around 70 or 75 grams of protein per day while pregnant. Well I talked to my nurse midwife about this and she said that was way too much and not to go over 40 or 45 grams. The main reason being that excessive protein could result in a larger baby which would make a natural delivery more difficult. The Bradley Method for labor and delivery suggests a large amount of protein, and apparently "Bradley Babies" are usually larger-than-normal babies. Not that this is bad for the baby necessarily, it's just harder for the mother to push the baby out....I guess. So anyway I just wanted you to be aware of that. It's not as if I started counting my protein intake I was just trying to eat more protein sources, and it did help curb my crazy appetite but maybe it wasn't so much the additional protein that helped me as it was just the additional calories. Who knows? I just know that I'm healthy, I feel good and I'm gaining appropriate amounts of weight for pregnancy, about 9 or 10 lbs so far.
I was more tired last week, and I don't know that I got as many "good" workouts in, I know I lifted weights at least twice, took yoga twice and ran at least 3 miles twice. When I write them like that it sounds like a lot of good workouts, I just don't think I was as focused and I know on one of those runs I ended up doing a lot of walking because I was just tired and couldn't get a good rhythm. Maybe I'll have more energy this week, and I plan to blog some more about the interactive effects of exercise and pregnancy on a woman's body.
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