Well, these past few weeks were much like month 4. They were pretty uneventful. A few very exciting things happened though, I got to feel you moving and kicking me from the inside. Something I didn’t really feel before. The first time you got the hiccups I almost peed my pants cause I had no idea what was happening. It was a very exciting time for me. We spent a lot of time at work, A LOT. Let’s just say, it was a really good thing that you were not making me exhausted and sick this past 4 weeks because I probably could not have handled it. I mean, you did give me some of the worst heartburn I have ever experienced but we got through it, not without a bottle of tums and couple of trips to the bathroom but we did get through it. They say it means you will be a very hairy baby….. we will just have to wait and see. I will have to ask your grandmother is your dad had hair when he was born, but I can tell you that I popped out with a full head of hair, ready to take on the world. I can imagine that you will be much the same!!
You size and growth started to show more and it became clear that I was preggers and not just getting fat! Our love for ice cream and cereal was replaced with the constant desire to eat Lebanese food or Greek food and we started to like vegetables again. Not a lot of them but at least we able to stomach them and got back on the healthy food train. We even tried fish again and it didn’t work…. I am sure at some point it will but we are just not ready yet. Seafood on the other hand is still one of our top 5 foods.
It was around week 21 or 22, when I realized I had only about 17 weeks to go and this whole growing an infant thing was more then half way done. I think it was around the same time when your dad, who is still not smoking, also realized that we need to get this house ready for you!!! We started talking about plans and what we needed to do and how we needed to clean and de-clutter so that we could get contractors in to do some of those things. We also started to talk about what color we should paint your room. We created a baby registry so friends and family could help up buy all the stuff we needed and wanted and your Aunt Malou started to organize a super fun baby shower in Ottawa for you! I might have pushed her a little….. I think I said, “So when is the baby shower you are hosting for me??”