15 weeks, 4 days

I realize how easy I have life as a pregnant woman.  I'm constantly reading about women who have crippling morning sickness or who are put on bed-rest early on.  I still feel like I have the right to complain about the little things like headaches, backaches and the inability to sleep (or stay asleep). 

I also have to say that I am fully aware of how lucky I am to have my husband.  He has gone to every appointment that I've had, he was pretty good when I've had problems with food aversions or just not feeling well and he's tried to be very supportive of me the whole time.  I've tried to educate myself on everything that I can about pregnancy and one of the ways that I figured I could get an accurate representation is by reading blogs and catching up on statistics about pregnancy, symptoms and relationships.  Even when we go to the doctor's office, they always seem so surprised that M is there with me again.  This is all not to mention all of the single mothers out there who go through all of it alone.  My husband is amazing.

Anyway, back to my complaints about pregnancy.  I'm dying to feel the baby move!  They say that it's usually between 16-22 weeks for most women to feel the baby and, being overweight, I should be further toward the 20ish week mark but I feel like feeling the baby move will make it feel more real.  I don't feel pregnant at all.  I still find the whole thing so hard to believe but, from what I've read, that is still normal at this point for most women so I'm not too worried about it.

I've decided that I don't find sleeping enjoyable anymore.  I either have horrible, emotional dreams or I can't sleep at all.  Yesterday, I finally got to nod off for a 3 hour nap and it was amazing. 

The best thing about being in the second trimester is that the food aversions have mostly gone away and I'm actually hungry now.  It makes me happy to finally be able to eat food and enough of it to feel like I have eaten.  :) 

I wanted to make a post about things that I'm thankful for because I feel like every post before this has been so negative! 

As a very last note, our ultrasound to find out the gender of our baby is on the 21st and I can't wait.  I have to be honest when I say that I'm more excited about getting to see the baby move around than I am to to find out the gender.