18 Weeks

On April 9th, I completed my 18th week of pregnancy. I'm not sure how it happened, but we are missing the 18 week photos. :( I can't even confirm that we forgot to take them because we are missing a memory card that has photos from January through April on it. I guess I will have to blame pregnancy brain. 

I now weigh 136.6 pounds (12.6 pounds of total weight gain). I'm still having headaches. I've also had a sore neck all week that is now stiff and extremely painful. I'm starting to get some round ligament pain when standing. I'm also still exhausted. I am so ready for that to end because I'm not handling the lower productivity very well. Hudson has been waking up most nights so that isn't helping any. I literally fall asleep almost every night on the couch around 9:30 or 10. Then I wake up exhausted and feel as though I could sleep hours longer. 

I had a Dr. Nelson appointment on April 7th. Dr. Nelson couldn't find the baby's heartbeat with the doppler, so she did an ultrasound. Baby boy was moving all around, but his heart looked good. She told me she wouldn't have been able to give me gender info that day because baby's legs were close together and the umbilical cord was blocking the between the legs view. Dr. Nelson took a few pictures, but she didn't give me any and I forgot to ask. (What a difference from pregnancy 1 to pregnancy 2).

I'm definitely feeling the baby move more all of a sudden, which is exciting.