1st bunch of maternity clothes

As I felt it´s getting more and more uncomfortable around my waist while sitting in the office the whole day I recognized that I would need to buy my first maternity pants.

The first thing to do for me was checking online what is available and I came to notice the website mamalicious.de where they have very nice clothes! I placed a big order and all items arrived 2 days later. I picked the following ones:

A long straight white linen pant with 2 pockets in the front and an elastic waist band which finds it´s place under the bump. It´s a bit long and I´ve got to give it away to let shorten it. But that´s not a big deal. As my due date is in July 2014 this pant came just so handy and until then I can wear it on the weekends!

I fell in love with the printing of this t-shirt, since I´ve been to New York I am a big fan :) I also like that the 'C' is filled with little golden studs. The fabric is very firm and there are gathers at each side for the bump to grow in.

Also this long tank top with Palm Beach on it caught my full attention ;) It´s the same firm fabric and gathers at the sides and the colors are really pretty!!

In the end I had to go out to the shopping mall to look for a proper maternity jeans/pant for the office and found this one at H&M. It´s a dark denim with a straight leg and the whole jeans is very elastic. The bump band or however you would call that is from a stretchy cotton material and lays softly and loosely over my bump. But the real release I could feel yesterday evening when we were out with some friends to a restaurant and I had to sit for 3,5 hours. It felt just soooo much better and I am so happy that I already bought this!!!

I know it seems kind of early as I am in 2nd month now and already wearing maternity pants but obviously it was already necessary for me. :)

Let me know if you already wear/wore maternity pants in your early pregnancy? I would love to hear!

Sani <3

7 weeks pregnancy update! / ssw 7

This week I have been to the doctor finally and now I know that the little baby is at the right place and the heart is beating! However, I am having very slight and minimal blood lost. Although this seems to be normal in the early pregnancy I want to hold back my official and public outcome until after my next doctors appointment. I hope you understand. So today is actually Sunday, November 24th.

This is my bump this week, still nothing to see :/

How far along? 7 weeks finished!

Total weight gain: I weigh pretty much the same still since the beginning.

Bump measure: 73 cm.

Maternity clothes? No

Stretch marks? No

Fitness: 1x 20mins. noon time walk - writing it down makes me feel really bad :( but I didm´t feel well on Friday so I skipped the swimming. 

Sleep: I sleep a lot actually, I am tired early and than waking up in the night again. This week I could either find right back into sleep or I lay awake until I had to get up anyways. :/

Best moment this week: Seeing my little baby on the ultrasound screen!!! It was such an exciting moment, first all was black on the screen and then I saw my tiny little baby! I was so relieved that it really happened!! Also the heart was already beating, which is simply wonderful!

Miss anything? Being more active in the evening, I wish I had more energy.

Movement: No

Food/cravings: I still want to have salami the best would be a salami pizza! I need to ask my doctor next time if it´s ok, as this craving is apparently returning from time to time. ;) On the other side I haven´t had coffee the complete week, I don´t know but I feel I don´t think I would enjoy. And drinking wise I am having fruit juices from Amecke they are really good and contain lots of iron, calcium, magnesium, vitamin c or b depending on the mix. I switch around and drink another pack each time.

Anything making you quesy or sick? Mince sometimes. Which is weired because I was craving meat before!

Gender: I don´t know.

Labor signs: No

Symptoms: I think I had some kind of emotional break down already ;) I need to start to get our flat ready for the baby and there is lots to do... Other than that I have bigger boobs, some small breakouts here and there and minimum gum bleeding. The worst for me however is that I felt extremely tired and also had some pain in my bump throughout the whole week :(

Belly button in or out? In

Wedding rings on or of? On

Happy or moody most of the time? I´d say more moody this week.

Looking forward to: Christmas time and x-mas markets, they are opening up on Monday, yay! :)

I hope you all have a lovely day!
Please feel free to leave your comments in English or German, as you prefer!

Sani <3

6 weeks pregnancy update / ssw 6

Today is actually Sunday the 17th of November, but I am making this official only, when I have seen my doctor for once. However this backward post might be helpful for any of you that are early pregnant.

How far along? 6 weeks!

Total weight gain:

Bump measure: 75cm

Maternity clothes? No

Stretch marks? No

Fitness: 2x 20mins. noon time walk, 1x 25mins. swimming + 45mins. aqua fitness

Sleep: It got better as I can sleep through the nights again at least some nights. And I feel tired a lot of the time, so I started to go to bed earlier.

Best moment this week: When my husband Nico was kissing me and then my bump good morning!

Miss anything? Not so far.

Movement: No

Food/cravings: I want to eat more meat like salami. And I reduced my coffee supply to 2 cups and a maximum of 3 cups a day. This is actually hard, coming from upto 4-6 cups a day! Especially now as I am feeling I have low energy.

Anything making you quesy or sick? No

Gender: I don´t know. I have the feeling it´s going to be a boy - but I could be totally wrong here!

Labor signs: No

Symptoms: I feel dizzy now more often throughout the day. Other symptoms from last week like sensitive and bigger breast or a small sniff have reduced which started to make me worrying a little bit. :/ Since yesterday I feel a pulling in my belly again.

Belly button in or out? In

Wedding rings on or of? On

Happy or moody most of the time? I am hoping that everything is ok as the symptoms have been less this week, but generally I am happy.

Looking forward to: Getting my pregnancy confirmed by my doctor!

Please feel free to leave a nice comment in English or German, as you prefer! You can also see my video here. ;)

Sani <3

5 weeks pregnancy update! / ssw 5

Today I want to share BIG NEWS: I am pregnant! We are so happy and thankful for this wonderful blessing!<3 I always wanted to record everything in a pregnancy diary and as we already know, I have the big luck to write down everything right from scratch! 

However, before making it public I wanted to wait for my first doctor´s appointment and see if everything is ok so far. So, today as I am writing this post is actually Sunday, November 10th!

I have followed Anna Saccone through her pregnancy blogs and vlogs and I really like the way she has pointed out everything. So, thanks Anna for inspiring me! :) I will be doing my updates in almost the exact same a similar way now.

Just want to point out again, that I am not a native English speaker and I wanted to post the pregnancy updates in German SO badly! But I convinced myself that I can do it - I will get that managed with all its kind of medicinal wordings etc. which will be difficult and really is an effort, but the whole sense of this blog is to maintain and extend my English. Especially thinking of when the baby will be here next year and I won´t be working anymore this will be a good practice to keep in touch! :)

So here is my test result:

I know the line is barely visible which is probably because I made the test on the first possible day and the hormonal hcg concentration was not too high at that point. But the test description put a picture of the exact same pale line and said: pregnant! As we couldn´t believe our luck and just to be safe I repeated the test 2 days after! ;)
And this is my bump for 4 weeks! (pls. don´t mind my stupid face expression, haha!)

How far along? Today I am at my first day of the 5th week as far as I know. This might change after I´ve had my first doctors appointment, we´ll see.

Total weight gain: I came to know that I am pregnant right after my little holiday weekend trip with lots of food and fancy restaurants, so my start weight will be 68,3kg, by the end of this week I lost 0,4kg.

Bump measure: 75cm

Maternity clothes? Not yet

Stretch marks? No

Fitness: A walk at the beach - don´t know exactly how long. 1x 30mins. swimming (40 lanes). A 15 minutes morning walk to the bakery.

Sleep: I woke up almost each night, sometimes I could´t find back to sleep and lay awake for an hour or so.

Best moment this week: When I saw that the test result was positive and I realized I am finally pregnant! :) And the radiant happy expression/laugh of my husband when I told him right after. Also the happiness of my brother and my sister in law, when we told them on Saturday. All these moments were really precious to me!

Miss anything? Not really, although I noticed that I cannot drink a glass of wine from time to time anymore. I´ve always enjoyed these evenings and now I know that it´s not happening for a long time again.

Movement: No

Food/cravings: Salami! I already bought salami and then I found out that it´s bad to eat during pregnancy :( how mean is that?! Apart from that I totally prepared and liked all healthy food this week. :)

Anything making you quesy or sick? No

Gender: I don´t know.

Labor signs: No

Symptoms: At first there are these breakouts around my chin area, I feel a little pulling in my stomach sometimes and my boobs are really sensitive!! I also felt a little bit dizzy in the morning when I went to work.

Belly button in or out? In

Wedding rings on or of? On

Happy or moody most of the time? Happy! :)

Looking forward to: My first doctors appointment.

I am so excited and I will be happy to exchange thoughts and experiences with you! Please leave me your comments below in English or German, as you prefer!

Sani <3