14th Week Appointment

I had another appointment with one of the Midwives today. Robbie went out of town on business last night, and wasn't going to be around for the appointment. So my mom spent the night in order to could go with me this morning. We had fun watching movies, eating yummy Leonardo's Pizza, and playing with the cats. The boys have gotten to know their Grammy very well since she has been coming a lot to keep me company while I walk dogs. They both cuddle with her and they love the cat grass chia pet she bought them.

Pi and Theta enjoying some yummy cat grass

The appointment today was just a quick one. They just checked my weight, urine, blood pressure, the baby's heart beat and asked if I had any questions. She found the heart beat right away and it was really loud and strong today beating at about 149 bpm. Mom really loved getting hear the baby so I am glad she was able to be there. I am thrilled that the baby is so healthy so far. My first trimester screenings all came back normal, hooray!

Fetus at 14 Weeks

The last couple of nights I have been having interesting dreams, both of which were about child birth. In the first dream I was lying flat on my belly on the ground and felt as though I was having a bowel movement. When I turned around, there was my baby! This time it was a boy and I named him Aspen. In my second dream, the labor was a little more intense. My water broke when I was at a doctor's office, but I realized I was in the wrong place and wanted to go where my midwives were. So even though I was in the midst of heavy labor, we got back in the car to go to the correct place where I had our baby. It was a boy again, and this time I actually got to hold the baby and breastfeed him. I even got to to take him to a family function where I started nursing him because he was hungry. Then I realized he went poop, but I hadn't bought diapers yet. Luckily, my sister-in-law, Nicole, was there with her baby Bryce and let me use some of her diapers even though they were a little too big. It felt so wonderful and natural to hold and kiss my baby, and somehow just having that dream made me even more excited and a lot less scared.

Weird Dreams

Ever since I've been pregnant I have been having the craziest dreams. I did some reading about it and I guess it's very common. There is even a section in each month of my pregnancy journal to record my most recent strange dream. There are different theories as to why pregnant women have such strange dreams, one is because of the extra hormones, another is because frequent trips to the bathroom in the night wake you up and cause you to be more likely to remember lots of weird dreams. Well, whatever the reason is, I am certainly having my share of interesting dreams, and I think I am going to try to get back in the habit of recording them in my dream journal I keep on my nightstand. I started it sometime in high school, but I've never been consistent. These are certainly ones for the book though. Here is the end of one of my most recent dreams:

Apparently dinosaurs roamed the earth again, and I was fiercely trying to escape from the clutches of a velociraptor. As probably one of the most intelligent, agile, and cruel predators that ever roamed the earth, of course it caught up to me and began to rip me to shreds. The weird part is that some of my family was around and they were talking to the velociraptor, telling it which parts of me to eat next so that I would die faster. It was gruesome beut I felt surprisingly calm. I remember having my nose chewed off along with much of the skin on my face and looking up at the sky trying to memorize it's beauty before the velocirpator chewed out my eyes next. I remember not feeling afraid of dying, only wishing that the animal would rip out something vital next so I wouldn't have to suffer for much longer. The worst part of the dream however was that after I got chewed up a bunch, that segment of the dream would reset and I would once again be whole, pinned under the velociraptor, ready to be be torn apart again. Over and over. I don't know how I felt so calm during it and when I finally woke up to go pee.

Velociraptor ready to feast

Midnight munchies

You know you've watched too many episodes of "Sex and the City" in one night when...

In the middle of a dream when you are feeling especially hungry in reality, you suddenly have an image of Sarah Jessica Parker pop into your head where she is strewn casually across the end of your bed saying, "Girl, we need some more cheese puffs".

Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw in "Sex and the City"