Baby update: Week 7

I've decided to do away with the weight loss updates and start a baby update.  How my baby is growing is much more interesting and more important.

I do continue to lose weight.  I believe since I found out I was pregnant I have lost over 5 pounds. I am now at my lowest weight of 194.4 lbs.  After I lose that .4 lbs I will have lost a total of 70 lbs all together. I will keep you informed on my weight, which I am sure will start going up eventually.  But I like to look at it as the babies weight going up, not mine.  With me still being overweight, I will need to watch my weight gain.  I have a good feeling though that with me continuing to eat healthy and exercising I will be able to keep the weight gain to a minimum.

Now, due to the crazy growing that the baby and my uterus has been going through, I have been experiencing abdominal cramping(growing pains).  More than I ever did with the boys.  Matter of fact, I don't remember having any with the boys.  This week it seems to have increased quite a bit.

I was just reading an article about it this morning.  It said and I quote, "Women whose abdominal muscles are tightest will experience these cramps with more frequency than women with more supple abdominals."  I think that's a nice way of saying squishy abdominals, which is what I had when I was pregnant with the boys. That explains a lot.  So basically, the more abdominal muscles you have the more often and worse your cramps could be because of the stretching of the muscles.  Great!  So all those crunches and ab work I've been doing just set me up for cramping?  Well at least they will also help me shrink back down.

The nausea that I was experiencing last week seems to have subsided.  I guess it was traded for growing pains.  I seem to find myself wanting to eat a little more often than usual and the bathroom is visited quite often still.  I know that will continue throughout the entire pregnancy.  We wont go into what my chest feels like on a regular basis(TMI).

All things are normal on the baby front except that a lot of what I am experiencing I did not experience with either of the boys.  I had no nausea, no cramping, no breast soreness(sorry men).  Who knows why I am with this one.  Could be cause I am healthier now and my body is doing what it is suppose to be doing for a change.  Could be cause it is a girl!  Maybe!=)  Or all of the above.

We will see what new adventures this week will bring.