weekly thread and topic of the week 4/9 through 4/15

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I LOVE my belly!!! Honestly, this is the only time I am 100% comfortable with my body. I love feeling the baby move and knowing that a life is growing inside of me!!! I LOVE BEING PREGNANT!!!!!!

Craving...I can not get enough fruit. Strawberries, grapes, pineapple, apples, bananas, you name it..I WANT IT!!! Also, edemame. Oh my gosh, I sat down and ate an entire bag the other night. It is SO good!!!!
: KFC...give me Kentucky Fried Chicken and a rootbeer float and I am one happy Mama! I had it 3 times last week!!!

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I really love how it has added to my relationship with DH. We're both really happy about starting a family.

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Permanent markers and gasoline. :

my favorite thing about the pregnancy is the belly! i love feeling the baby move, i love seeing my belly hop and bump, i love that my family can enjoy it with me. i love grabbing a foot, or knowing where the head is.
plus, having a big belly is the only time my boobs actually look small in comparison. my belly is large (but then, i'm barely 5 foot). i keep wondering how it's actually going to fit a baby that still has to gain another 4-5 lbs. i think since it's still head down is why i'm so crowded. i'm used to baby's sitting transverse for awhile, or tumbling around. this one just likes being on it's head.

i have no food cravings. nothing is appealing. if i crave something and get it, it doesn't taste like i imagine it. i think it's the crowded stomach.

Amy, you didn't answer your questions!

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That's me too. I'm having a hard time making myself eat, much less making myself eat anything good. Even when I am starving, nothing sounds good, and I can't get motivated to make myself anything. Even bad stuff, junk food, fast food, whatever, doesn't sound good. And then, no matter what I eat, it's Heartburn City. I had pretty bad heartburn with my first pregnancy - even water would cause it. My second I had almost none. This time it is back with a vengeance.

I haven't been enjoying this pregnancy the way I feel I should, especially since it is very very very likely to be my last. There's just been too much going on around here, and it would be a lot without being pregnant. I feel bad that I am not reveling in this pregnancy. I LOVED being pregnant the first two times. Loved it all. (OK not the heartburn, I confess)

But I do love feeling the baby move (which is nearly constant). At the end of the day, no matter how tired I am, I always lie on my back in bed with my hands on my belly and just breathe and feel the baby. It might be five minutes or twenty, but it's the best part of the day.

What is your favorite thing about being pregnant?
Two things, the BELLY and the glowing skin! Yesterday I was at a farmers market and perusing this yummy natural body products booth and the woman was gushing over me telling me that I was glowing and that she wanted to offer me a job working for her until she saw that I was pregnant.....she asked if I was a SAHM and I said yes and she was all "GOOD!" It just made me feel really wonderful. And the belly.....I walk around my house all day with my shirt pulled up just gazing at it..... And of course feeling all the individual parts of my baby rolling around inside is the best part of EVERYTHING.

CRAVINGS!!! What are you craving??
Fruit: oranges, apples, cherries, grapefruit, limes
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Dairy: fresh mozzarella, extra sharp cheddar, gallons of 2% milk, plain yogurt

I feel really lucky that I don't have any cravings for junk food. Although I am highly suggestible. So I think I might have to find a way to make myself a fluffernutter sandwich.

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baby bumps and rolls.

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everything, which is evidenced by the fact that i gained 9 lbs last month. however, in the last four or five days, it seems i've entered that phase where i can only eat the smallest amounts of anything before indigestion and that overstuffed feeling set in. i'm not nearly as hungry as i have been ... but EVERYTHING sounds, smells and looks good these days.