Pregnancy Update!

No visible belly yet....but my pants are a little snug!

Well, my first 3 months of pregnancy have been pretty uneventful. I thought I should give an update anyway since I have been asked a lot of questions. Things are going really well. We had an ultrasound back at 7 weeks just to make sure we had a strong heartbeat. We saw our little bean-shaped baby with a strong heartbeat. At 11 weeks we were able to get a heartbeat reading on the doppler. At the same appointment, as the doctor was feeling around my uterus, she said she felt the baby kick her fingers. I couldn't feel it of course, but I thought that was cool. They said my baby is really tiny and will probably only be 5 or 6 pounds at birth. Hopefully that means easy labor! I haven't gained any weight so far and I just have a little belly that kinda comes and goes. No maternity clothes yet or anything. As far as pregnancy symptoms, I have been SUPER lucky. Other than peeing a lot, I have felt pretty normal. I can eat anything and have only barfed 3 times (all from eating too much). I feel great! Sometimes it's easy to forget I'm pregnant. I do eat and drink more, but overall, it's been a breeze. I'm sure I will think differently when I'm 7-9 months. It has been such a blessing. I don't know how I would have kept up with everything if I was sick all the time. Also, I finally got to talk to my mom about her pregnancies. She delivered all 4 with NO DRUGS!! Not on purpose. She would go from the first stage to the third stage of labor so quickly there wasn't time. I am trying not to let that terrify me. On the other hand, my mom also had easy pregnancies and no stretch marks. Yay!! Stretch marks are mostly hereditary, so I am hopeful that I can avoid them. As far as gender goes, I can find out in mid-late May. The problem is, I will be back here in Florida for 3 weeks while I fulfill a contract with the St. Petersburg Opera company. I was excepted into their Emerging Artist program as the role of "Zerlina" in "Don Giovanni." It's exciting, but bad timing. I will have to wait until the middle of June to find out the gender. I will still have the appointment while I am here in Florida, but since Kevin won't be here, I am waiting till I get to Indiana so we can find out together. It's going to be hard knowing that I COULD find out, but have to wait. I guess it will be more accurate that way. So that's about it! I will try to update every once and a while and show pics of me getting fat when it happens.