Feb 2

Yay!!!  Long story short: I've generally stopped taking nausea meds since Dec 21st.  I've had to take four pills since then b/c it got so bad, but haven't puked once since then and have only had to take the rare pill.  I'll totally call that a win.
I'm also now a good 10 pounds heavier than when I got pregnant (yea).  I'm honestly grateful to be able to eat *most* things again and not feel wretched, so now I've gotten to the point where I need to really focus on eating a balance of healthy things and delicious bad-for-me things while still moving my body (aka exercising) which I've not been very good about these last two weeks.
I'll be honest:  this is our last pregnancy.  I'm 100% sure.  We've already made plans to ensure this will be our last biokid.  I'm good with that.  However, I do still get the rare feeling where I'm semi-sad...like with Alien Belly (which seriously creeps me out): Fester's now so big that he doesn't really kick/punch all that much b/c there just isn't space.  Instead, you see this huge lump move slowly across my belly and it's really freaky.  (Seriously, it freaks me out.)  But then a small (very small) part of me thinks "Enjoy it; this will be the last time you get to be creeped out by Alien Belly on/in your own body, yo).
I don't remember getting middle back pain with Gabriel, but it happens pretty much every day with this pregnancy.  In the middle of my back?  That doesn't even make sense!
And Fester still prefers my right side.  Previously, he would try and kick through the right side of my belly (it hurt pretty bad sometimes b/c he'd kick and/or kick/stretch so hard).  Now, though, he seems to love to be nestled up under my right ribs...  I have no idea what body part it is, but it's always there...and it's generally just a weird type of uncomfy...Yesterday, though, he moved crazy fast and it felt like he almost broke my rib.  I literally gasped in pain.  Ah...  Good to know he loves me.  :)
So I have about a month left to go.  We'll see how long it takes.  I'd *thought* I'd read somewhere that second pregnancies often were slightly shorter than first times...but almost everyone I've talked to has said their second pregnancy went longer than their first (which is sorta scary since Gabriel came a half-week late).  Now it's just a guessing game.  I prefer him to stay in there for at least three more weeks or so...  We'll just see what he decides to do.