17 Weeks

How your baby's growing:

Your baby's skeleton is changing from soft cartilage to bone, and the umbilical cord — her lifeline to the placenta — is growing stronger and thicker. Your baby weighs 5 ounces now (about as much as a turnip), and she's around 5 inches long from head to bottom. She can move her joints, and her sweat glands are starting to develop.

I need to buy new jeans already. My clothes are starting to feel a little too tight. I really don't want to buy more, but I gotta do something, right? I also need to find somewhere that sells maternity clothes. I'd order online, but I have no idea what size I wear.

Baby is cooperating with me lately. And it's nice. Headaches are pretty much gone. Haven't thrown up in at least a week, probably more like two. Little pains come and go, but it's nothing yet.

So I guess I finally know what everyone was saying with the second trimester being the most comfortable and enjoyable. I'm not sure I'd go as far as enjoyable, but I've definitely been more comfortable.

I go to the doctor on Friday. I'm afraid to step on the scale. Last time, she told me I gained too much weight. And I haven't exactly been watching what I've eaten lately...

A little over 3 weeks until my ultrasound!

And here is a picture I took last week. I still don't look pregnant, I just look like I'm getting fat. But no matter how much I try to suck in my stomach, it doesn't go anywhere!