Week 18 & Other recent updates!

We went to the doctor yesterday and I was 18 weeks along. The baby's heart rate was 153 bpm and we could hear the baby sloshing around in my stomach, it was pretty cool.
We thought that we were going to have another ultrasound done that day so we could find out the sex of our baby for sure, but we have to wait another 2 weeks. We are having a fetal anatomy ultrasound done which will tell us the sex of our baby and take it's measurements which is on December 18th! (it seems so far away!)
I had blood work done 2 weeks ago to test for any possible birth defects and everything came back good! The baby is healthy and growing strong!
I have felt it move which was so neat. It started last week whenever I was awake in the middle of the night and sitting very still for a long period of time, it felt like little flutters. I was like "OMG please happen again!!" Of course it didn't for the next few nights and then it happened again. It was so fast that I could not comprehend what was happening. This week it has become more frequent and strong and it's a great feeling!
My mom bought me the infamous book, "What to Expect When You're Expecting," and it is scaring the buhjesus out of me! It tells you so many things you can't do because it will harm the baby somehow. Like it says you can only take cold to medium baths and showers or the baby will overheat. Um whatever! I take like 3 hot baths a day (I'm not exaggerating) and everything is just fine! There's a lot more stuff they say you can't do or eat as well but it would be too long to list them all! I do follow the rules that my doctor gives me, I just don't take it overboard! And I can have seared Ahi Tuna cooked rare once a month YES! J Alexander's here I come once every 30 days for the next 5 months.