Yummy Food

I hated the first trimester of my pregnancy. I felt so awful every day all day. I couldn't eat anything. My diet pretty much consisted of water and crackers every day and Josh trying to force me to eat. I think he was worried about the baby not getting what he needed but I just couldn't keep anything down.

Now, 8 weeks from birth, it is the opposite for me. I am starving all the time. I love to eat! I eat way more than I ever did before I got pregnant. I enjoy food more. I crave everything. We went out to eat yesterday and I had a platter of ribs and I ate every single bit of rib on that plate and almost stabbed Josh when he tried to steal a fry from me. Eating makes me happier than anything else ever has right now.

Yes, there is the heartburn I have to deal with but eating Tums helps with that. And I have been oh so lucky to not have a lot of the symptoms most pregnant moms have at this stage like constipation or varicose veins or hemorrhoids. Of course I've been craving fruit like crazy so I've been eating a ton of that whenever I can and also milk. I also have been drinking water like crazy. I can't seem to get enough water. My entire day pretty much consists of me drinking bottle after bottle after bottle of water and making a million trips to the bathroom. But it's probably also what's keeping me from getting some of the nastier symptoms of pregnancy. Or maybe I'm just lucky. I'm not as good about eating veggies. Not a huge fan of those. But Josh tries to make me eat them when he's home and I try to make myself as well when I can.

We started doing this weekly thing where we pay $15 to this organization called Bountiful Baskets and I go pick up a huge box full of fruits and veggies. Save a lot of money this way and have a fridge full of healthy foods for me and the baby.

We still haven't decided on a name for him. His middle name is going to be Drake because he is going to be born in the year of the dragon and I personally think that's quite awesome. His first name will either be James or Jace or Justice. I'm kind of leaning toward Justice but we really aren't sure yet.

I am pretty sure he is not going to be breech because his little feet are right up in my rib area, kicking and kicking, which hurts quite a lot. But I think it must mean his head is down near my pelvis so that's a good thing. I do not a C-section for many reasons but the main one being we do not have medical insurance to pay the hospital and do not qualify for Medicaid. We talked to the financial guy there yesterday and of course costs vary quite a bit just depending on how things go but he told us assuming everything goes well and there are 0 problems it is still going to cost us about $6,000 to have this baby. If anything goes wrong of course that price goes way up and that doesn't include the price of an epidural or any kind of pain meds at all so I am going to try and do this without any kind of pain medication. We'll see how that goes.