Week 26 Update

I can't say that I've ever had an English Cucumber, but that's how long (tall) my little man is right now.

He's also 1 2/3lbs, give or take.

He's still really active, which I still love.  I really think I'm starting to nest though.  I saw that I "only have 97 days left!!!" of this pregnancy and I feel COMPLETELY and TOTALLY unprepared. I feel like there's so much we have to buy, so many things to do. Even though this is my second child, I feel like I am completely unprepared and don't really know where to begin.  It's not a good feeling.

Otherwise things are good.  I have my glucose test a week from today and if my calculations are correct I should be going to the doc every two weeks from now on.

My maternity clothes are falling apart.  My mom bought me a pair of pants from Old Navy with the adjustable waist. Well, the button on the left side came off so one side is no longer adjustable.  They won't stay up.  Then I found out today that there's a hole in the butt right by the pocket!  Looks like Old Navy is not the move to make when it comes to wanting a pair of pants that will last.  Not maternity pants, anyway.

Things could always be worse, so I won't complain too much.  :)

Week 25 Update

I can't think of anything creative to say about a rutabaga.  He weighs about this much though, 1 1/2 lbs and is about 13 1/2 inches long.  He's still very active.  I love laying in bed at night and watching my stomach jump all around.

I can't believe I'm almost in my third trimester already.  This is definitely the home stretch, and I feel like I've done nothing (outside of make him) to prepare for his arrival.  His room is full of Brie's toys because the kids playroom is currently a makeshift guest room.  Maybe I'm nesting early.

I'm feeling all right.  Sleep eludes me more and more these days (or nights, I should say).  I either wake up in pain from laying on my side or I just wake up and get back to sleep.  I know Alex must be kicking the hell outta me while I'm sleeping because I'll wake up and try to drift back off, but he's going crazy in there!  Kenny's said he's had his hand on my belly while I'm sleeping and Alex has been moving up a storm.

We were laying in bed the other night and he asked me if it felt weird.  I told him it did, just because these little (and big) rolls and movements come out of nowhere sometimes, but I wouldn't trade it for the world.  Brie was never this active.  Or if she was, she was just too small for me to feel it.  She's definitely making up for lost time tho!

Week 24 Update

These "size of your baby references" are starting to get a little corny...

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

I think my son is probably bigger than that, anyway.  At our appointment Dr. Reyes-Hailey said that our 20 week ultrasound had our little guy growing in the 83rd percentile.  I swear I almost passed out.  I don't even know what the 83rd percentile looks like in the womb, but I have a pretty good idea of what it looks like out of it...and all I can say is I'M NOT READY!!

Everything else is okay.  Found out that my massive pain when belching is in fact Esophageal Reflux, but Zantac is perfectly safe for me to take.  Finally some relief!  We go back in three weeks instead of four and I will have my glucose screening then.  Three years ago it wasn't bad at all, so I'm not worried.  Things usually get better...not worse.

Week 23 Update

Mmmm, mango...

He's gettin' pretty big, huh?  That's pretty evident from the way I feel him punching around in my belly all of the time.  I love to feel him move though.  I'm sure that feeling will fade once he has a few pounds on him, though.*

This has been a good week.  I have gas all the time, of course...and now I can add a weird esophageal pain to the mix.  I think it's my GERD that I rarely ever suffer from.  Everyone I've asked if it could possibly be heartburn has answered with a resounding "NO".  I guess I have yet to "feel the burn", as it were.

Otherwise things are progressing nicely.  I go in for my checkup on Tuesday.  It should be pretty routine.  I'll get to hear Alex's heartbeat, get felt up a little and be sent on my way.  In a month the fun begins...glucose testing!

*probably not

Week 22 Update

My little Alexander is the length of a spaghetti squash and weighs almost 1lb.  Kenny says that he still can't feel most of the kicks, but he can see my belly jump when they happen!  Seeing as how Brie was so small, I wonder if he will be small or big(ger).  If I hadn't caught the stomach flu, we may not have had the ultrasound to show that Brie was still measuring small.  I don't think I'll have another ultrasound with this pregnancy.

I'm glad that everything is progressing normally, but I miss not seeing him monthly the way we had to do with Gabrielle.  I feel like I have no idea what's going on in there.  He moves every day and the movements are getting stronger.  I'm sure everything is moving along just as it should.

For the past four days or so I've been feeling "sickly".  I'm not full-on sick, but I have a cough that won't go away, my throat feels funny more often than not, and sometimes I feel like I'm having an allergy attack.  I think if I weren't pregnant I would've gotten really sick and been over it by now.  I hate the lingering.  Just do what you're gonna do and be done already!  Jeez...