Past updates:
And just FYI, I’ll be creating a Baby page on the blog soon where I’ll put all of these posts in one place for future reference. Once I got pregnant, I could not stop reading other bloggers’ pregnancy recaps and loved it when they were well organized. Since I didn’t tell anyone I was pregnant for quite a while, I was dying to read about a “real person’s” experience – not just what I found in pregnancy books – and loved bloggers’ pregnancy recaps! I hope these weekly recaps are interesting to you guys, too… or that they may become of interest in the future at some point!
Baby Updates
11 Weeks: Baby is the size of a fig!
12 Weeks: Baby is the size of a lime!
(Forgot to snap a bump pic!)
13 Weeks: Baby is the size of a peach!
(Please pay no attention to the blurry photo/dirty mirror. I snapped this pic to send to friends and it ended up being the only bump pic I had from that week and I didn’t want to miss a bump pic for the second week in a row.)
Weight Gained
11 Weeks: Didn’t weigh myself.
12 Weeks: 3 pounds.
13 Weeks: Didn’t weigh myself.
Workouts
11 Weeks: Consistent almost-daily workouts. Aside from the spinning classes I teach, I’m not doing much other cardio and prefer to keep my workouts low-impact (barre is fabulous!). Strength training (specifically BodyPump) also feels great and makes me feel strong!
12 Weeks: Consistent almost-daily workouts.
13 Weeks: Took it lighter on the workouts this week and, with the exception of the classes I had to teach, stuck mostly to Pure Barre and walking as my main form of exercise.
Symptoms
11 Weeks: Increased urination (seriously it’s ridiculous…), nausea returned with a bang (constant eating helps keep it at bay), restless sleep, increased appetite, thankfully no fatigue, minor breakouts on my face.
12 Weeks: Incredibly thirsty, no major nausea, more breakouts on my face, increased appetite (<— I’m sensing an ongoing theme).
13 Weeks: One of the roughest weeks yet in terms of nausea, early morning puking, two days of some pretty intense fatigue, skin still looks pretty rough and zits/bumps are now popping up on my chest and back. How fun!
Food Aversions
11 Weeks: Tomato-based soups, chili, most cooked vegetables
12 Weeks: Same as week 11
13 Weeks: Same as week 11
Food Cravings
11 Weeks: FRUIT (all day every day!), pizza, bagels, fresh salads (woohoo for finally craving some kind of vegetable!), chips
12 Weeks: Eggs, Twizzlers, gummy candy, fruit (specifically apples, oranges and grapes), salty popcorn, sandwiches
13 Weeks: Sandwiches, eggs, fruit
Sleep
11 Weeks: Waking up constantly. Difficulty going back to sleep most nights.
12 Weeks: Improved sleep!
13 Weeks: Rough sleep. Waking up constantly throughout the night.
Looking Forward To…
11 Weeks: Our 12 week appointment! I am feeling anxious this week and really want to see our little baby again and hear its heartbeat.
12 Weeks: Finding out whether our baby is a boy or a girl.
13 Weeks: Our 3D ultrasound appointment next week!
Gender Suspicions
11 Weeks: Still no clue but starting to lean towards thinking we’re having a girl… Not sure why!
12 Weeks: Girl??? Boy? I don’t know. Leaning towards girl though…
13 Weeks: Girl.
Any Baby/Pregnancy-Related Purchases?
11 Weeks: I didn’t buy anything personally, but Ryan got me the Bun in the Oven sampler pack of beauty products from Mambino for Christmas and I started using some of them. Love the organic body wash, belly butter (using it sparingly at the moment, but plan to use it more as my belly grows) and the lip balm.
12 Weeks: Nope!
13 Weeks: Nope!
Any Fun Stories?
11 Weeks: There was some confusion related to one of my prenatal appointments this week. I showed up at the doctor’s office expecting a routine exam with no ultrasound only to have the doctor tell me to “empty my bladder” and prepare for an ultrasound and blood work. I was shocked and incredibly nervous (I am horrible with needles) and immediately texted Ryan at work to let him know. I knew he’d be REALLY bummed to miss an ultrasound (we both were!), but I decided to get the blood work and ultrasound done without him since he couldn’t get away from the office on such short notice and I figured I should get the first round of blood work out of the way as early as possible.
The ultrasound ended up being absolutely amazing and Ryan and I were both so, so sad he missed it, but I filled him in afterward in great detail. It was incredible because, not only did I get to see our little one again (the baby was SO MUCH bigger than it was at 8 weeks!), but I saw our baby move for the first time and immediately started crying. It was unreal and I couldn’t believe what I was seeing on the monitor. The ultrasound tech was actually a blog reader (crazy, huh!?) and was so incredibly kind. She, along with the doctor, took a lot of time to zoom in and show me our baby’s 10 fingers, kidneys, beating heart (left ventricle and right ventricle… I could not believe the detail!), etc. I was blown away and left the appointment on cloud nine. I immediately called Ryan, my parents and my sister who all shared in the excitement with me!
Follow up: We ended up scheduling a 3D ultrasound at 14 weeks because Ryan was so anxious to see our baby move. It was incredible. More to come!!
13 Weeks: We told my in-laws about the baby this week when I was in Sarasota! Not filling them in was SO HARD, but since I knew I’d see them in person during my trip to Florida in late January, we were determined to wait and tell them when I could do so face-to-face. I’m SO glad we waited because seeing my mother-in-law cry in person was unforgettable and I’m so glad I could hug everyone immediately after I told them all they’d be grandparents and great grandparents. It was definitely worth the wait!
I also told my best friends from college this week when we were all together in Sarasota.
(There were secretly four people in that photo of me with my beautiful friend Leah who is due to have her baby boy this month!)
They were all shocked and so, so excited for us! (And that’s sparkling water + grapefruit juice in my champagne glass.)
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LOVING these recaps!!! Keep them up!!!
Yay!! Thank you! 🙂
I love reading these recaps 🙂 You still look so tiny in these pictures..can’t wait to see the bump starting to come in once you catch up on the updates! Thanks for keeping us all in the loop and trusting us with something so personal and special in your life. 🙂 Sending hugs and prayers your way!
I feel like I started to see the biggest bump changes last week!!
Honest.com has AMAZING belly butter and organic baby products for baby and momma… And the bundles make them dirt cheap! I use the body oil daily as well as the belly butter even tho I am way past giving birth … I even use the mipple balm as they get sore from working out.
The site has been a god send!!!!
Ive heard great things about their stuff! Thank you for the recommendation!
Love this style of recap – 3 weeks in one give me a great picture of the weekly changes, because they’re side by side in one post for comparison. Love it!
Love that the tech is a blog reader. lol That’s fun.
Such a happy, emotional, wondrous time. Glad you’re sharing and that you have such a HUGE support network of friends and family surrounding you. I think that’s one of the things I really enjoy about your blog – reading about your happy connection to friends/family. You’re blessed! Thanks for sharing all your various journeys. 🙂
Been following your blog for a while and was SO excited to hear about your wonderful news (like way more excited than I should be about someone I’ve never met)! I love these recaps and can’t wait to see what’s to come!!
I appreciate this so much! Thank you!
Man, these updates are giving me a serious baby bug!!!
Love the recaps! Can’t wait to hear more about the in-between weeks and I’m still betting on a girl!
Love your updates! But now I have some serious baby fever, and i was sure i was finished after 2! Don’t tell my husband, he may make me stop reading!!!
Haha!!!!!
GIRL! Wait to sneak it in there! Congratulations!!!
Loving the recaps!! I can’t wait to reference these in the (hopefully near) future! <3 Can't wait to follow your journey!
Love these recaps, Julie! I’m so excited for you!
Thank you! <3
Even though I’m not a mama (or even pregnant!) I love reading your baby updates! Congratulations to you, Ryan, and Sadie! I’m looking forward to reading more about your pregnancy and, eventually, motherhood experiences.
Thanks, Jenna!! I appreciate it!
What baby blogs have you been following?
I loved the pregnancy recaps on Daily Garnish and Sweet Tooth Sweet Life — both gave weekly updates that were so fun to read and relatable!
so fun to get to tell your girlfriends in person!
Yay! So fun to read these. We didn’t do a 3D ultrasound with Hunter, but I’m tempted to do one this time around. The impatient person in me would love to find out the gender even a little earlier. 😉 Plus, I think the 3D aspect would be so cool!
It was really cool!!!! I am dying to get another one later on!
I love reading these updates! Lots of prayers and warm wishes for a healthy baby (and momma!)
Thank you! <3
I love the baby posts! I am due with my first baby (today!!) and I loved reading some of my favorite bloggers experiences. I had to laugh last week when you said you bought a bag of cheddar sour cream chips. I did the same thing early in my pregnancy and my husband thought it was such a random purchase but it was what I was craving so I went with it. You look great and can’t wait to find out what your little one is!
Yes to those chips!!! And how exciting that you are SO CLOSE!!! Yayyyy!
Love getting to follow along! So excited for you & your family!
Thank you, Jan!!
Loves the recaps and thank u for sharing ur experience! What other pregnancy blogs did you find helpful and interesting ?
I loved the recaps on DailyGarnish.com and SweetToothSweetLife.com! Both Emily and Courtney gave weekly updates that were quite detailed!
Haha I love that you put the disclaimer that you WEREN’T drinking booze! 🙂 But really, sparkling water and grapefruit juice sounds SO refreshing!
It was surprisingly tasty!!! I started making the same combination at home after that!
Loving these updates!! Keep them coming! 🙂
Hi Julie! Yay for my first comment! I wanted to share my secret of having almost no stretch marks after giving birth to my daughter. I just used sesame, almond and avacodo oils alternately. Every morning and before bed I put it all over my belly, breasts and thighs. I first started with sesame and almond. When my bump started getting bigger added avacado oil at least once a day. Avacado oil is great for skin elasticity. Just get the ones with nothing added to them. I used to get mine from the cosmetic section of whole foods. They make your clothes a little smelly in the long run but I’d rather throw away a few tank tops 🙂
Thanks for sharing, Ivy! And for commenting, too!! 🙂
You are welcome. I forgot to add that you have to keep wetting your hands while applying natural oils. It makes them so much more manageable. I know natural oils are not for everyone but I hope it helps someone. I’m a living proof that they work 🙂
I am so enjoying these updates! Thank you for sharing with us.
Thanks for sharing your news and excitement! It’s so, so fun to read 🙂
Aw, that stinks that Ryan missed the ultrasound but I’m glad you guys scheduled a follow-up 3D one!
Looking Beautiful, Julie!!
I craved fruit throughout my entire pregnancy. It was awesome! I couldnt even stand the thought of raw chicken. As in, if I had to buy it at the grocery (for my husband to cook!), it was double bagged, in the far back of the SUV and all of the windows had to be down. And it still made me gag! The body is so very strange! You are doing amazing with our workouts! 😀
so funny that your u/s tech is a blog reader!
I know!!! I was so surprised!
I’ve never been so happy for someone that I don’t know 🙂 My boyfriend has started asking how “peanut butter fingers” is doing with the baby. Hahaha. Clearly I’m excited for you!!!
Aw!!! Thank you!! <3
Your recaps are so sweet and cute. I’ve read some where they are just too much. can’t wait to read about the gender reveal tomorrow.
I’m jealous of all your ultrasounds! I had one at 7 weeks and 1 at 18 and no more until I meet the baby in person. I need to see your OB!
I love reading these re-caps! It blows me away how different things can be in pregnancy from week to week. Truly a miracle!
I am so excited for the PBF family, congratulations!!! I agree, would way rather read blogger monthly pregnancy recaps over pregnancy books. Can’t wait to find out the gender!
xo
MM
Congrats! Two things- if you are craving fruit watermelon was my jam when I was pregnant. It is so refreshing and helps quench the insatiable thirst. Also I found rubbing a sugar or salt scrub on my belly in the shower kept my skin looking great and stretch marks away. Good luck!
love the baby recaps!! do you mind sharing your recommended list of “pregnancy/baby bloggers” as I’m also obsessed with reading their stories!
Congratulations, truly happy for you! I’m 14 weeks pregnant and love following along with you
Hi Julie! I’m LOVING these bump updates! It’s so fun to watch how your habits and feelings change… Makes me nervous-excited for when I someday might be a mom 🙂
Do you follow Camp Patton? LOVE her stuff! And she has 4 kids with one on the way! Talk about experience!
Another thing… You may remember a while back that I posted about my dog Indy who was ill and not doing well. She since recovered and is doing much better! She was such a little fighter and your kind words while things were touch and go meant a lot to me.
I don’t think you and Ryan are looking for another dog but I saw this one on Susie’s seniors and couldn’t help but think of you. http://instagram.com/p/0D3Xy2Dev5/ She is not doing well in the shelter and seems like such a sweet little lady! If you know of anyone in Charlotte that may be able to make room in their hearts for her please consider sharing the link. She deserves a loving home, not a cold hard shelter floor 🙁
So happy for you! Just got an email that stitch fix is now offering maternity. What perfect timing!!
You look absolutley perfect and healthy! Im thinking your having a girl! I had those same fruit cravings, nausea only controlled with constant eating and the other symptoms 🙂 whatever it is its going to be one beautiful, happy and loved baby! Congrats! Love the prego posts! There is nothing like the first pregnancy..Its truly a miracle and such a blessing!
Your blog is great! Congrats on the pregnancy, you look fabulous! The pink dress pictured is so cute! Where did you get it?????
The brand is Trina Turk and I got it on RueLaLa.com 🙂
Congratulations, Julie! I love reading your pregnancy posts 🙂 I’m actually curious to hear about what prenatal vitamins you are taking. There are so many out there; I’d love to see what you recommend.
Hi,
Loving the updates. I’m actually pregnant too (though w/ a boy) and have the same due date, so it’s super fun to read your posts!
I also wondered about a recipe that I thought had been on your site but that I can’t find anymore. It was a slow-cooker south western chicken dish. Do you still have that one? Or am I crazy and it was another site?
Thanks!
Marianne
I think this may be the one –> https://www.pbfingers.com/2014/10/22/slow-cooker-santa-fe-chicken/ 🙂
Congrats Julie! Even though I don’t have kids I always love following bloggers as they discuss their pregnancies & life changing and all the creative ideas they have and beautiful photography they capture of themselves and the little ones. One of my favorite bloggers is Jessica from How Sweet It Is- she has an amazing baby section full of all kinds of funny details, info, maternity fashion, etc: http://www.howsweeteats.com/baby/
And Jenna from Eat, Live, Run- I love her outlook on life, marriage, and she keeps it real for all the readers: http://www.eatliverun.com/elr-baby/ I’m so happy she is living the life she worked so hard for!
I love their blogs, too!!! Thanks so much for commenting, Holly!
Is it bad I always read these recaps and think to myself (and get kinda excited!) to see what my cravings and the things I won’t like will be ?!
So happy for you! Can’t wait to hear everything 🙂
**TIP from a momma of four with no stretchmarks** Oil up that belly NOW! Even if it’s not big, start oiling your belly almost daily (maybe right before bed) ….I used Bio oil for my first pregnancy then got a tip from another mom who said she didn’t have any stretchmarks, Vitamin E oil! So pregnancy 2, 3, and 4, I was religious with lathering my belly (and hips) with oil. Lotions didn’t work for me, they also didn’t help with itching…on itching…DO NOT ITCH YOUR BELLY!! That will cause scarring too. Don’t give in, if it itches oil/lotion right away!
thanks so much for the tips!!
Please please keep up on this baby talk 😉 I LOVE IT! When I was pregnant with my first my acne was horrid! I remember my chest & back was covered at all time! I remember complaining about how I felt as if I was a teenager again ha!
me too!!!
I’m loving these weekly recaps but I think you might be giving me baby fever! Haha! Continued prayers for you and your little. : )
thank you!
So sweet! I, too, am needle-phobic, but made it through three pregnancies–the last one was even a natural delivery. The bloodwork got easier for me–praying and mentally reciting Bible verses about courage definitely helped.
Enjoy parenthood! My kids are now 10, 14, and 16, and every stage is fun and rewarding (and challenging) in its own way. I wish I could have one more, but my husband was done at three.
So so exciting 🙂 Im loving racing your updates and can’t wait to hear if it’s a boy or a girl! 🙂
is it me misinterpreting or did you sneak the gender in there?? 🙂
Nope! When I wrote those recaps during weeks 11, 12 and 13, I had no idea what we were having yet! 🙂