Week 13 | Registry questions!

Week 13

Hello friends and family!

Firstly, thank you all so much to those who responded to my questions last week! I think I'll start making a couple questions each week as many of you are mommies or have been mommies for a while and are a  great resource to tap into through this process! (I'll have questions at the end of this post!)

I feel like I look smaller in this pic? thoughts?

As week 13 comes to an end I can say I'm excited to officially be out of the first trimester! This week not too much has happened in the McCabe household. The hubby and I are just getting back into our daily routine with him being back at work. I did purchase a few inexpensive bras that will hopefully get me through the next couple months before I get any larger! I also purchased a maternity swim suit.. for the pool I don't have... Who's inviting me over?!?! My Zulily order STILL hasn't shipped.. sigh.. I'm giving them until next week until I call and demand my money back... its been like 3 weeks and nothing... lesson learned... order from amazon. This week I haven't felt as good as I did last week though :( I have had a little bit of nausea and LOTS of heartburn, but with the baby's development this week, the heartburn kind of makes sense: 

In week 13 of development the baby is about 3 inches in length and weighs about a half ounce! Its about the size of a peach or a pea pod (awwww). This week the baby doesn't have much growth as much as its working on developing things to make body parts more proportioned. For instance, my baby's eyes are moving from the side of the head (ALIEN!) to the front, the head is going to stop growing at the same pace as the rest of the body (right now its like half the size of the whole baby!) so the rest of the limbs can start to lengthen and become more proportioned. It is also starting to form an ultra fine fuzz of hair all over it's body called lanugo... this may explain the heartburn! It's a fact that women who's baby's have hair suffer from heartburn.. so I'm concluding by baby has a bunch and looks like its sister:

Symptom check!

Hiccups: I'm not sure if this is a symptom, but before I was pregnant, I rarely got the hiccups. And now I get them all the time! I'm not sure if this in conjunction with the indigestion I get, or with things moving around inside me making room for the baby. But yeah.. anyone else get this symptom?

Urination: Its official, I can't go an hour without using the restroom! My record is 4 times in an hour! When we leave the house I have to map out our day according to bathroom breaks haha

Smell: As bad as my allergies clog my nose.. I still have this crazy sense of smell... I can smell things I've never been able to smell before.. and usually it's smells that make me throw up.. Lets just say baby daddy's gas can be smelled from across the house hehe

Heartburn: Yep.. its there, and it sucks... I find that I'm ok in the morning, but come the evening, the Heartburn is unbearable! I'm still on Zantac but hoping that this will lesson as the weeks go on!

Fit: Everything fits weird! :( I officially only have one pair of pants that I can still button... but by the end of the day I'm struggling. My hips just keep getting bigger! But I still haven't gained any weight! (that I know of)

Emotions: The only thing I've really noticed this last week is I'm still really short tempered or I'm not as patient as I usually am. Things annoy me WAY sooner then they normally would and I have to excuse myself from conversations a lot sooner then normal because I get aggravated easier. 

Question time!

1: So as I progress I've been getting a lot of questions about my registry or what I've registered for. I've been SLOWLY looking into items and trying to make a spread sheet comparing prices at different places (you all know I'm OCD and shouldn't be surprised if you ever followed my other blog about couponing and price matching). This is especially important as we will be EXCLUSIVELY cloth diapering our baby. So question: where did you all register/ did you compare pricing of different stores before registering or go off ease of access for your party going guests? (for example did you do target because its pretty much easily available to everyone?)

2: Excluding what I've already mentioned that I've personally purchased what are 3 items you registered for or WISH you had registered for that you couldn't live without for your baby.

3: On the opposite end, what are 3 items you wish you hadn't purchased/registered for and thought was a waste of money.

*For those curious as to the small amount of things I've started to register for check out the Registry link at the top of the page.

*** AAHHH!! So sorry I forgot to post this on time! ... I tried to work ahead and be all prepared and kind of forgot to post it lol... ***

Well that's all for this week!
Until next time!
Bre and the bump!