16 week appointment

I had my 16 week appointment with my midwife this morning. Everything looked great!! Found the heartbeat right away and it was beating nice and strong! I explained that my symptoms seem to be happening much sooner this time compared to being pregnant with Julia. I was in maternity clothes MUCH sooner, round ligament pain was sooner, pelvic bone pain was sooner, etc... I figured it was normal to feel all this sooner this time, my midwife confirmed it. Julia had stretched everything out already so I am going to experience the symptoms sooner. She also said that I will probably experience new symptoms I never had with Julia too. She is right on that. The morning sickness is SO MUCH WORSE this time. What I did have with Julia mainly stopped by the 2nd trimester, but this time I am still struggling with morning sickness someday. Not NEARLY as bad as it was in the 1st tri, but it still pops up often. I also have a new symptom I never had with Julia; bladder control issues. Just what you wanted to read about, huh? But I wanted to record this pregnancy and it is an issue, so there it is. I think Julia smashed my bladder too much. Now, occasionally when I sneeze, I will leak a little... Lovely, I know. That is why they make pantie liners I guess. I really hope this does not get worse as the pregnancy progresses and the baby gets bigger and smashes my bladder!

My next appointment is the BIG ultrasound where they take all the measurments to make sure the baby is growing like it should and that it has a brain, 4 chambers to it's heart, organs, etc... It is also the time were we will get to find out the gender of this baby, if it cooperates! I am getting excited. I am also looking forward to finding out the gender. With Julia I just KNEW right away that she was a girl, this time I really don't have a feeling one way or the other. That is driving me NUTS. I feel like I should have a Mother's Intuition or something on the gender. I think maybe girl, but I think that might because I am used to being pregnant with a girl. Then I think maybe a boy, but it that because Jerrod calls this baby "his son" (he would be just as thrilled with a girl)? I also am thinking maybe boy since this pregnancy is SO different then with Julia, but then "they" say, every pregnancy is different. Hopefully we will find out in a month!