13 weeks pregnancy update / ssw 13

How far along? 13 weeks and finally coming to the end of the critical phase!

Total weight gain: A total of 4 kilos already!
Bump measure: 77cm

Maternity clothes? Yes!

Stretch marks? No
Fitness: 2x 45mins swimming.

Sleep: Nothing changed from last week.

Best moment this week: Seeing tears in hubby´s eyes when thinking of our baby.

Miss anything? No.

Movement: No

Food/cravings: Also same as last week still. Need to check if I am allowed to eat cervelate meat.

Anything making you quesy or sick? Brushing my teeth was not easy this week, it made me nauseous.

Gender: So excited to get to know!

Labor signs: No

Symptoms: Really bad back aking and I went to my doctor who described me the lumba mum band which carries the bump and releases the back. 

Belly button in or out? In

Wedding rings on or of? On

Happy or moody most of the time? Happy!

Looking forward to: Finishing the last critical week.

Please feel free to leave your comments in English or German, as you prefer!

Sani <3

12 weeks pregnancy update / ssw 12

How far along? 12 weeks!

Total weight gain: I forgot to weigh in this week :/
Bump measure: Also forgotten... :(

Maternity clothes? Yes! My belly feels very uncomfortable when squeezed together into tight clothes. So I´ve done another order and added a beautiful dress as well as some tights and leggings to my closet.

Stretch marks? No
Fitness: 1x 20mins. noon time walk.

Sleep: It´s okay, I still wake up at 4:30 or 6am but it does´t bother me so much anymore.

Best moment this week:

Miss anything? No

Movement: No

Food/cravings: Again I feel appetite for specific meat like cervelate.

Anything making you quesy or sick? No

Gender: I am getting really curious to know now! :)

Labor signs: No

Symptoms: It seems my tiredness is going away slowly and I am getting my energy back! Wohoo! On the other side my back hurts a lot especially the lower part.

Belly button in or out? In

Wedding rings on or of? On

Happy or moody most of the time? Happy.

Looking forward to: The next ultrasound.

Please feel free to leave your comments in English or German, as you prefer!

Sani <3

11 weeks pregnancy update / ssw 11

This week I had to prepare a lot. I have done my last christmas preparations and also my hubby had it´s Birthday this week! All that I had to do the baking shopping on Monday, bake on Tuesday, the birthday and guests on Wednesday, good-bye party of my boss on Thursday, general and x-mas shopping on Friday.  Again it was very stressful but in a positive kind of way. However I got back aches and I need the weekend to finally relax myself.

How far along? 11 weeks already?? omg, this sounds a lot!

Total weight gain: A bit more than a of 2 kg.
Bump measure: 78cm.

Maternity clothes? I am wearing my maternity jeans whenever I can. Other pants are getting tighter around my belly which is uncomfortable.

Stretch marks? Not until now.
Fitness: 2 x 20 mins. noon time walk.

Sleep: It´s okay, apart from the fact that I wake up at 4:30 a.m. and lay awake. But as I feel a little bit more energized I decided to get up at 6 a.m. and get ready for work.

Best moment this week: Nico and me when we were putting up and decorating our christmas tree. We felt kind of sorry that our little Pünktchen cannot see it. ;)

Miss anything? A long nice sleep :)

Movement: No.

Food/cravings: I cooked a big pot of Hühnerfrikassee and froze 4 portions, after having had the leftover I directly defrosted the first portion again, haha! :)

Anything making you quesy or sick? No. Or yes the smell of cigarette´s smoke but I suppose this is disgusting for all non-smokers as well. ;)

Gender: I don´t know, however I sometime have the thought it´s going to be a boy. So I am really excited if that´s actually true! :)

Labor signs: No.

Symptoms: My gums are bleeding much more now and I do have more breakouts :( I come out of breath easily and feel dizzy sometimes. Also I feel small hurts in my stomach and I still do feel exhausted. After a normal working day I am usually wrecked! ;)

Belly button in or out? In.

Wedding rings on or of? On.

Happy or moody most of the time? Happy!

Looking forward to: I am looking forward when it´s getting brighter again outside from the 21st December on! Yay!

Please feel free to leave your comments in English or German, as you prefer!

Sani <3

10 weeks pregnancy update / ssw 10

Today is actually December 15th while I am writing this. My 10th week of my pregnancy was a good week less stressful, but nevertheless exhausting because I had band lesson on Thursday and our company christmas party was on Friday AND I needed a new dress what came into my mind only 2 days earlier! ;)
However I can say this all was positive stress. 

How far along? 10 weeks

Total weight gain: I weigh still the same as last week.
Bump measure:

Maternity clothes? I love my maternity jeans it´s so comfy!

Stretch marks? Not yet. But I am using Penaten Mama Oil with Aloe Vera.
Fitness: 1 x 20mins. noon time walk and a big walk over the christmas market in Lübeck. Further than that I have searched for a yoga course for moms-to-be that I would like to join for a test lesson next week.

Sleep: Still out of rhythm.

Best moment this week: Seeing and hearing my little baby´s heartbeat on the ultrasound! <3

Miss anything? Doing something else than working, eating and sleeping.

Movement: No.

Food/cravings: Salami pizza cravings have been stilled! I try to eat more fruits as I am hungry almost every 1-2 hours.

Anything making you quesy or sick? Not really.

Gender: Don´t know.

Labor signs: No.

Symptoms: Still very tired and it feels like I am sleeping almost half of my life away... some breakouts and the feeling that I am exhausted so easily.

Belly button in or out? In.

Wedding rings on or of? On.

Happy or moody most of the time? It´s a mixture, I am generally happy but I wish I could do more with my time.

Looking forward to: Getting the christmas tree up!

For caring my bump I have used irregularly the Penaten intensive care oil with aloe vera extract. For the next week I will be looking for a new product to try out. I think now as I am half way through the third month it´s getting more and more important to use a caring product regularly.


Please feel free to leave your comments in English or German, as you prefer!

Sani <3

9 weeks pregnancy update / ssw 9

This week was the worst so far. I had such a super busy and stressful time in the office that my stomach started to hurt like it was telling me 'go home'. However, I haven´t told anyone at my working place yet and I felt I had to stick to my tasks as I had to take over work from 3 other people. And who should do all that plus my work plus it was a super busy day! It was CRAP!!! Worst days were Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and I went to bed right after work each day. I was so exhausted that I started to cry on Friday evening when I told my husband that I wanted to cancel our weekend trip to Dresden where we wanted to visit the beautiful christmas market. I am so glad I opted this decision, because on Saturday I still had to recover and in the late afternoon I got a really bad headache! It lasted me until Sunday night! I had to go to the emergency pharmacy on Sunday and ask for something that would give me release but the man told me to go outside for a walk get some fresh air an drink loads of water! Which I have done. He didm t sell me anything. And so I used my tiger balm as last option, which gave me small release here and there.

So this is the reason why I am filming one day later this week. It´s Monday the 9th of December today. However, I have taken my pictures yesterday and you can see how I felt like crap!

How far along? 9 weeks! OMG I can´t believe I have finished the first week of the 3rd(!) month already!

Total weight gain: I gained a total of 2Kg upto now.
Bump measure: 76cm without breakfast.

Maternity clothes? Yes! I am wearing my maternity jeans whenever it´s not in the wash!

Stretch marks? No.
Fitness: A small walk on 1st of Advent. After all my fitness was really bad this week! :(

Sleep: It´s difficult, I am still tired and exhausted after my working day so I go to bed early and I wake up early as well. Sometimes I wake up around midnight and need to brush my teeth and wash my face! I literally just fall asleep while whatever I´m doing. :(

Best moment this week: Recognizing I am in the 3rd month!

Miss anything? My energy.

Movement: No.

Food/cravings: I want a salami pizza so badly! This week I had a coffee for once but generally I am off coffee.

Anything making you quesy or sick? No.

Gender: It´s going to be a surprise still!

Labor signs: No.

Symptoms: My stomach and my head ached really badly after this stressful week. I am tired, exhausted and come out of breath easily for no reason. I have break outs around the chin area and feel dizzy often. This week I also felt nauseous for once. And I am hungry all-the-time! I feel I need small portions but eat more often throughout the day. Oh yes and as a total new symptom my breast is itching.

Belly button in or out? In.

Wedding rings on or of? On.

Happy or moody most of the time? This week was not a good week, so I´d say moody.

Looking forward to: My next ultrasound!

My besties for this week! Zwieback and tiger balm. :(

Please feel free to leave your comments in English or German, as you prefer!

Sani <3

8 weeks pregnancy updated / ssw 8

Happy 1st Advent! I hope you all have a cosy time. I am going to have a cosy lazy day with nice food and maybe a walk, that´s all.
Today is actually the 1st of December while I am writing this and this is the bump for 8 weeks!

How far along? Finished my 8th week today!

Total weight gain: Now I gained a whole kilo since the beginning of my pregnancy.

Bump measure: 77cm

Maternity clothes? Yes! In fact I needed a new pant because I am sitting a lot in the office and it started to get really uncomfortable around the waist. So I have 1 maternity jeans, 2 shirts and a linen pant now. :)

Stretch marks? No

Fitness: An 1 hour walk through the forest, 1x 20mins. noon time walk around the Alster.

Sleep: I am still in bed early and usually sleep from 9:30 pm till the early morning like 4 or 5am and lay awake until I need to get up which is not before 6 or 7am.

Best moment this week: Nico and I were laying on the couch and I asked him just for fun if he loves me and he answered 'Yes! Of course.' and then I asked 'And do you love our little dotty?' and he said 'Yes and really particularly!' ('Ja, ganz besonders sogar!')

Miss anything? My energy!

Movement: No

Food/cravings: I am still off coffee. This week I have many ideas what I want to cook starting with a thai and rice dish and ending with red cabbage.

Anything making you quesy or sick? The smell of used coffee pads in the office.

Gender: Don´t know!

Labor signs: No

Symptoms: Still tired like hell!

Belly button in or out? In

Wedding rings on or of? On

Happy or moody most of the time? Happy.

Looking forward to: Getting my energy back - whenever that´ll happen..

Please feel free to leave your comments in English or German, as you prefer!

Sani <3

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