Showing?

Mostly I've been wearing aforementioned huge jeans and mens T-shirts with sweat shirts lately. This past weekend we were headed to a memorial service, so I had to dress a little less sloppy, and did a double-take when I passed the mirror on the way to the shower. My breasts are huge! And when I pulled on my not-as-sloppy shirt - my belly shape really looks like a pregnant person's now, and it no longer just looks like I'm getting chunky.

I stopped being freaked out about gaining too much weight - I realized that I haven't gained any noticeable weight in my face, my arms and legs, or my back. I'm still lean (well, as lean as I was in December) in all the non-baby places. I don't trust my scale completely, but according to the one at the gym I've still only gained five pounds since I found out I had a stowaway on board (when I was 146 lbs, on the non-trustworthy home scale).

My climbing has been improving lately, in part due to the motivation of having a new climbing partner who is at my level or a little above. My goal is to send a 5.11 before I get to the third trimester, and he figures I can make it. My new climbing harness arrived in the mail Saturday - will take a little getting used to, but it will do the trick.

On a whim I went back to the cardio kickboxing class where I used to be a regular. Starting in second trimester, I'm not supposed to do any exercise lying on my back (compresses certain arteries and spikes my blood pressure, puts too much strain on baby's blood supply), which meant I had a limited choice of ab exercises to substitute. Also, I can lie on my stomach in bed, but not on the floor do to back extensions. Will have to experiment with a ball to see if that helps. In general, though, it didn't feel like the class was any harder than it would have been after any normal eight-month absence. Jumping rope felt weird, with my big ole' belly jiggling up and down.

I have a big week of appointments next week, with a prenatal on Wednesday and a "medical anatomy ultrasound" on Thursday (checking for all the important body parts, like heart valves, and also trying to determine baby's gender!) In preparation for the prenatal, I have to write down everything I eat in the next four days. I ate a really healthy breakfast and felt very wholesome until lunch, when I had a healthy bowl of soup and... a mini French bread pizza.