Baby Dreams

Now that I'm ending the first trimester, there are some changes that I'm noticing in myself.

*I continue to think that I am on the better side of this whole "morning sickness" thing, which has proven to be more of an "all day sickness" thing. I definitely have good and bad days now, as opposed to every day full of feeling sick.

*The hormones are starting to arrive. For the 11 weeks that almost no one knew that I was expecting, I didn't really think or talk about the ways that I was feeling, other than, "no, that food does not sound good," or, "did I really just fall asleep on the couch at 7:30?" :) Because I didn't want to spill the beans to anyone, I thought very little of my symptoms, therefore just dealing with what came and making the best of it.

I haven't really played the pregnancy card with Andy. I have a few times when I just flat out could not do something because my energy level was so low. I had to call upon him to do my half of the jobs, which he did with almost no comments at all! :D

Friday, the hormones arrived. They didn't call ahead to make a reservation, but rather beat down the door and charged inside. I. Was. Not. Ready. For the first time, I noticed that I was not a nice person, and I felt very bad for Andy. He needs a trophy :D Now that I am aware of my "house guest," I am working on being sunshine, even when I don't feel like it. It's not fun.

*My clothes are tight. I've enjoyed my sweat pants and stretchy pants, but even those are starting to feel differently. I've worn a few of my maternity pants, which really feels like I'm playing dress up, since it's the complete opposite extreme.

*This last one is really pretty funny to me because I was not expecting it. I've had at least 3 pregnancy dreams! I can only remember 2, which I will share with you, but it's super funny that I've woken up this last week and had dreams about babies to share with Andy!

Dream 1: In the first dream, I went to the hospital because I was in labor. I was very excited to be getting to see my baby, but I soon realized something was very off. As I was waiting to get hooked up to all of the machines, I thought, "I wonder what I'm having?" This was weird to be because we have decided that we will be finding out at 18 week. I kept looking at my stomach, which was only slightly bigger than it is now, and thinking, "I can't believe I'll be going into labor!"

Well, it turns out that that night I didn't go into labor, so they sent me home. I came back the next day, though, and went through the whole thing again. Each time just wanting to know what I would be having.

I woke up, and no baby. :/ I almost wish that my dream would have given me some type of clue as to what I was having!

Dream 2: Andy and I went to find a friend at their apartment. When we got there, they were having a pool party! The next thing I know, I'm in a blue bikini...luckily, still the size I am now, and not 9 months pregnant. As Andy is talking to one of our friends, I look down at my stomach and notice that that dark brown line that appears on your belly when you're much further along had already appeared on my own belly!!! As I kept looking, though, it wasn't centered!!!!! It didn't go through my belly button, it veered off to the left!!!

When I shared this part with Andy, he made a fake gasping noise and said, "heaven forbid it wasn't perfect." EXACTLY what I was thinking, but without the sarcasm! I couldn't believe it wasn't straight! I was just thinking, "everyone else's line goes straight down the middle and looks so cute. My has to slant off to the side!"

I'm sure there will be many more dreams to share in the future, hopefully giving me some clue as to what we're having :), so I'll share those as they come along.

Did you ever have weird pregnancy dreams? What were they?!