| Sunday, January 18, 2004 Going into 20 weeks preg! I'm halfway there already!! This is going by quickly! I'll be honest with you---knowing what a "big boned/big gal" I was as a teenager and even in the past ten years, I am extremely surprised I am not bigger at 20 weeks. (Watch what karma has in store for me now--bet I'll pop out overnight now.) I am still wearing my regular size 12 jeans (however, you need to remember I went from size 8 to size 12 since mid September). I am happy that I am not a huge rolly-polly yet--thought that would immediately happen to me--yet another pregnancy mystery. Of course, part of me worries that I am not that big yet--is there something wrong? I ask myself. Is this normal??? I feel that my stomach isn't even as big as it was in the last 17 week photo. Like that night I was simply that big because of a large meal and snacking over the holidays. I DO have a pooch, but I can hide it very well. I am looking forward to the day when the "man on the street" can take one look at me and know I'm pregnant. I'm sure that won't be long... ********************* Jas came by yesterday with Gavin and I took some pictures. I'll have them up on the reg. website before long. He's looking more like Jasmine, but when he scrunches up his face, he looks very Matt-like! :) ************************ What's going on with baby: Different books tell me different things about its length---it ranges from the baby being six inches to almost ten! That's hard to imagine. The sources also tell me I may be starting to notice sleep cycles with the baby. That's true---I can feel little boo moving around the most around the time NBC news comes on (dinner time--imagine!), when I'm resting on the couch. Vernix is covering the baby now---it's a waxy substance to protects the skin from all the stuff in the placenta. *************************** I'm being interrupted by pee episodes during the night now---and when I try to get up, I have to put extra effort into it because there is definitely additional weight/pressure there that I have to take into account. Chris has even started giving me a helpful push on those nights where I'm having trouble--(it hurts to "force" getting up too quickly because it squeezes, um, my bladder, or something...make sense?). Hey, right now, I can feel the baby moving--I feel the most movement on my left side most of the time...it's neat. ****************************** Until next time... last next |
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| An ultrasound of a baby at 20 weeks. Our ultrasound is coming! Only 9 more days! |