the roque life: 14 weeks

I am officially in my second trimester!!!!

I wish I would've started this blog a lot sooner. Only because I would've loved to have seen my progress so far. I will admit though, ever since I've found out that we were expecting I've started to feel that the further along I get into this pregnancy the more I feel like this body is no longer mine. Ok, just for the record I'm not complaining at all. I've had a very easy pregnancy so far, but the changes that my body is going through catches me off guard at times. I sometimes wake up one morning and look at myself in the mirror and do a double take because I don't recognize the body that I see in front of me. I also know that this is just the beginning of the many changes...but for now I'm just learning to really embrace it.

This is the first week that I've ever truly felt pregnant. Last week when I was on my lunch break at work I experienced the baby kick for the first time!!! It was pretty crazy cause I had just gotten done eating and drank a cold glass of water...and then all of a sudden I felt this little pop about 3 inches below my belly button. There I was all by myself with the deer in the headlights look just not moving and unsure what to do. I sat there a little longer to see if she/he would do it again, but no dice. It was probably one of the most amazing feelings ever!

ps. this is not my belly!

Along with the baby movement, yesterday was the first time I've ever felt truly sick. I started getting these terrible headaches a few weeks back and with that I began to develop an annoying cough too. Yesterday, those powers combined and I could not get myself out of bed!!! I called my nurse and all she said was to get some throat lozenges, tylenol, and drink lots of fluids. I was not aware that when you're pregnant that you are VERY limited on what type of medicine you can take. She told me that I was only allowed to take up to 500 mg of tylenol in one day...and for you who don't know that's a little over 1 pill!!! So I took my one pill and sadly split it in half...

Now along with the belly that I already have... I can now feel my uterus just above my pubic bone which is starting to push my belly out even more. At work today I happen see a reflection of me in the mirror and I saw my lower belly peeking out of the bottom of my shirt...cool! Not really!

I guess all I can do is laugh about it...I'm just thankful for every week that passes. Besides all the crazy things that I've been feeling it just reassures me that the baby is developing properly.