Pregnancy, Thanksgiving and house

Wow. It's already been another week. I guess I've been slacking. I wish I had a good excuse, but I really don't, other than being preoccupied with thoughts of moving and freaking out because I still have another THREE WEEKS until my next appointment (although at this point it's only 18 days away).

I do have a new symptom this week!! Last Monday after eating my morning oatmeal and drinking the first of many glasses of water for the day, I had another bout of pregnancy heartburn and it has returned pretty much daily since then. The first time it happened it caught me off guard, so I didn't have any antacids and had to suffer until it passed. I finally got my act together on Tuesday and bought the biggest package of Tums that I could find. (It took me until Tuesday because I wanted to consult with a couple of recently pregnant friends to make sure that Tums are on the approved substance list for pregnant women, which both of them confirmed. They both also reminded me that Tums are a great source of calcium.) Since then I've been downing two Tums pretty much every night, because the heartburn tends to return between 8 and 8:30 every night, and I'm feeling much better.

Other than that, there's nothing much new to report on the pregnancy front. I'm still tired all the time. I've had a couple more bouts of nausea, but nothing serious. I'm also starting to see an increase in my appetite, although I'm trying to keep it in check and make sure that my snacks are healthy ones. I've had one or two spells of lightheadedness, but mostly only when I've been hungry and get up too fast. I can still fit into all of my clothes, although my pants are feeling just a teensy bit more snug than they have in the past few weeks.

I had a bit of a chuckle to myself tonight. J and I went out to dinner, and he asked how big the baby is going to be when I go for my next appointment. I pulled out my iPhone and opened up one of the apps, then scrolled to the information for when I'm 11 weeks along since I'll be 11 weeks, 2 days at my next appointment. I handed my phone to him, and he proceeded to flip through the rest of the weeks to read more about what'll happen with the baby each week through the rest of the pregnancy. Whenever he read something he found particularly interesting or amusing, he would read it aloud to me. This particular app also shows sketches and 3D ultrasound pics of babies every week, so you can see what the baby will look like as it grows, and he looked at all of those, as well. And then he started looking through the info about what happens to me each week during the pregnancy, but he only got as far as the first mention of hemorrhoids and then he stopped looking at that. It was the first time he's seemed really interested in what's going on with the baby, and I think it's got him hooked. I thought it was really cute.

On the new house/moving front, we still don't have a new closing date, but we started packing this weekend anyway. (Ok, so J did most of the packing, and I did a lot of sitting around feeling like crap yesterday and today.) So far we've gotten most of our miscellaneous extra dishes and glassware from the kitchen packed up, as well as our DVDs and J's video games and my unicorns. We've also got a box of books that J packed, but it's too heavy for him to lift so it'll have to be re-packed. We've run out of boxes, though, so I'm going to see if I can beg some copy paper boxes from work (since they'd be free and they're a good size for packing books, because you can pack them full but they're still light enough that you can pick them up) and J's going to make another run to either Lowe's or the UHaul store to get more. We're also trying to map out our game plan for getting everything moved over there, depending on when we close. We're thinking that if we are able to close sometime late this week we'll start moving boxes and some of the more manageable furniture over next weekend, and possibly start unpacking some boxes so that we can reuse them. Otherwise, if we close sometime early next week, J will most likely take over a load of boxes per day, and then we'll move all of the furniture the next weekend when we can (hopefully) get people to come into town or come over and help us move.

That's all the news from here! I hope that everyone had a great Thanksgiving, and is ready to welcome the final month of the year and begin the countdown to Christmas this week!