SpecialGift89

Oh wow! It sounds amazing. I can't wait until it's my turn. All those little things him stretching and yawning sound so cute. Congrats! x

CamoQueen

Just a quick post to say -- I'm 20 WEEKS TODAY! Halfway point! Now I can start counting down instead of counting up!

LO has been kicking up a storm for the past few days! It seems like every time I sit down to watch a movie or TV, he starts to wallop my insides. Which is really cool; he's too small to be hurting me when he fidgets, and it reminds me that he's there and healthy and thriving.

So we bought the main baby furniture a few days ago -- the crib, dresser, and changing table. Today we're going to get some drapes to put up in the room (I would like a nice baby blue); DH is happy because he likes to put stuff together like a real manly man, lol. Then we need to register for all the baby stuff, because family has been bugging us about it, and I would like them to kindly shut up.

I still have to fight that stupid feeling like I'm going to be 'jinxing' myself for shopping for the baby. Though I did read the odds of a death after 20 weeks was something like 1/200, so it seems silly to worry. I figure that I'm just going to put my blinders on to all the negative thoughts and fix up the baby's room and be happy!

Still working on boy's names, though. I tend to like more traditional names, and DH likes weird ones. He honestly suggested Moses as a boy's name, which I think is ridiculous. But then he'll joke about calling it Leonitus, after that movie 300, just to get a rise out of me. Oh, I hope we'll be able to find a name we both can agree on. I do know that I'm not naming my son after a Spartan, though.

CamoQueen

21 weeks! Today marks 18 weeks and 6 days until my baby's due date.

Sometimes it seems like November is forever away, but then I think of the weeks until the baby is due and it seems like nothing. Every day is a step closer to the third trimester (which I'll be in late next month!)...

So this weekend was not as lazy as most weekends. On Saturday I went to an engagement party for a coworker. I was there from 5 in the afternoon and got home at 1 in the morning. I had a really good time despite the necessary sobriety, but I got so worn out after a while! My abdomen started to hurt from sitting for so long... I don't know if it was all the extra weight or what, but then my back started to hurt around 11. By the time I got home, I was so sore!

Then yesterday LO was pretty quiet; he didn't move nearly at all that morning. I was worried so I had a listen on the doppler, and there was the heartbeat, strong as ever. Later he began kicking some more, but not as much as usual... and now today he's up to his normal kicking self, lol. I guess all that partying wore him out, too!

And then there's this funny thing with my bump that's kind of bugging me. Okay, so I know that the baby is fine and growing, and my bump is getting bigger and bigger (above my belly button, now) so that's normal, but sometimes I notice that when I'm laying down, it's bigger on the right side than the left. Noticeably bigger, sometimes ridiculously so. It's been this way since I've ever HAD a bump. Like I'll notice if I've been sleeping on my right side, the bump will be all the way to the right but very small on the left. But then sometimes it's nearly even, or completely even. I don't know if that's just the way that my uterus sits -- more to the right than the left -- but it looks so funny! Why can't my bump be even?! And for that matter, why can't my boobs stop getting these damn stretch marks? They are all the way to the top of my breast now (some above the bra cup line), so I can't wear shirts that show any chest at all. It's so frustrating!

But on a more positive note -- less than 3 weeks until LO is viable outside of the womb! I am seriously counting down until 24 weeks... and then I'll be able to breathe a little easier.

Angelmouse

Hiya hon.

Don't worry about the lopsided bumpiness, it's just where littley is sitting atm.

Congrats at 20wks.

CamoQueen

You know, you're completely right... I guess that LO just likes to hang out on the right side for some reason! I have never seen him sit on the left except for the other night. I felt him shifting (such a weird feeling) and I looked down to see the left side of my tummy had gone all lopsided! It gave me a total happy to see that LO had moved and that it wasn't just my weird anatomy. But today he's back to the right side again.

So I'm 22 weeks! Tomorrow I'm moving up a ticker -- the last ticker in the second trimester!!! Five weeks until I'm in the third tri; I can't wait. It seems like just yesterday that I was entering the 2nd trimester. Ooh, and two weeks 'til baby is viable!

Yesterday LO was having a good time kicking me. I told OH and he put his hand on my belly and felt a good four kicks in a row! He was all giddy over his active little boy and I'm happy that he could feel LO moving again. I guess it was all the kicks one after the other that surprised him. Doesn't really surprise me, though; when LO decides to fidget, man does he move! And lately he's been moving more in the mornings, too. Usually bubs doesn't take to kicking until afternoon, but for the past few days I've been getting morning kicks, too. It's kind of nice.

Oh, so I ran into an acquaintance I haven't seen in a while. I told her that I'm pregnant and I've been having backaches lately which kind of sucks, but that I know it won't let up for a while. So then she went on to say that it won't be bad forever, that the first trimester tends to be the worst but the second is better. Umm, yeah, thanks for assuming I'm in the first trimester. Not all pregnant ladies have huge bumps, ya know! I was just like, "Yeah, okay, I've gotta go," and didn't bother correcting her. What I wanted to do was slap her with my pimp hand and shriek, "I'm 22 weeks, you cow! I left the first trimester two months ago!" I just thought it was a little rude to not even ask how far I am, just assume from my lack of apparent hugeness that I must be very early on. Stupid people.

But on the plus side, this might mean I'll be like my mother and never get the dreaded stomach stretchmarks. If only my boobs could have been so lucky.

Angelmouse

Your Buba's so cool. He's like yeah i'm just over here chillin'. I might go over there in a minute, I just don't know. Walloping Daddy, stomping on Mummy and generally making his presence known.

Some people are so dense. We saw our neighbor at the Golf club on Sunday and I appologised to him for the state of our garden. Since I got pregnant i just haven't been able to keep on top of it. "You're not pregnant again?" He says, "Haven't you people got a Tele?" I was so stunned that I didn't even say anything I just turned around and went back to my practice swings.

Some people!

CamoQueen

Oh my God, I can't believe he said that! I swear, some people really ought to think before they speak. Some people want larger families and some people want smaller families; just because you wouldn't follow someone's exact life plan doesn't mean you should criticize them for it!

So DH and I have agreed on a middle name, but people might think we are being silly and/or crazy or evil to do this to our little boy, but I LIKE IT and DH LOVES IT and I think it's fun and cool... okay, so we can't agree on the first name but we do know that the middle name will be Danger. You know, as in "Danger? Danger is my middle name!" Yeah, we're kids like that. I figure might as well give our kid a normal first name and if he hates his middle name he never has to use it. But it seriously makes me happy thinking about it. And I'm not gonna take crap from no one for it! So any naysayers can suck it!!!

Though I imagine I will get loads of ribbing from the family, lol. Ah, well, my kid, my name.

Up a ticker today! And 8 days 'til my next visit with the midwife -- kind of scared to see how much I've gained. I came into this month intent on eating healthier, but a few days in I collapsed into the soft, loving folds of chocolate cake. And brownies. Oh, and pizza and burgers and french fries and burritos and... everything terrible for me. Oops!

Uvlollypop

im glad everythings ok babe x

Angelmouse

WooHOO! Up a ticker Yeah!

I think Danger as a middle name is a fantastic idea! It'll probably turn into his nickname too.

Oh the loving folds of comfort food! I'm planning on having an experimental weekend to see if I am still as allergic to wheat as I was (since it doesn't kill me) I am just so sick of saying, "oh no i can't". I wanna just eat what I want for a weekend. You might wanna pop by my journal sometime next week it could well make a funny read if it all goes Pete Tong.

P.S. Yeah I think my neighbor thought he was being comedic or something but even still.

CamoQueen

I'm going to have to give it a look, it sounds like it will be pretty entertaining!

23 weeks (and a day)! Less than a week until LO is viable! Less than a month until the third trimester!

So it's Monday and while I'm not ecstatic to be back at work, I'm feeling pretty happy. I guess it's 'cause DH has the next few days off, so that means more time with him when I'm at home. And I made a chicken green chile casserole the other night for him to take to work, and he came home and said it was, "OhmyGod delicious," which of course makes me happy. I didn't have a chance to eat any as I was still full from lunch so my dinner consisted of a cream soda (full calorie, too, and it's been FOREVER since I've had a non-diet cream soda, and it was gooood).

I've been looking a lot more pregnant lately, too! Bump seems to have grown a lot in this past week. I put on a shirt the other day and I looked in the mirror and I swear, I looked like an actual, factual pregnant lady. And LO has been kicking me higher lately; the other day he was having a great time kicking me square in the belly button! It was such a weird feeling!!!

Wednesday I go to see my midwife for a checkup. I actually really look forward to these checkups... which is kinda silly, because she's not really doing anything all that interesting. I know what's going to happen -- weight check, blood pressure check, questionnaire (how are you feeling? any pain?), fundal height check, heartbeat check. Rinse and repeat, see you again in four weeks. But there's just something so nice about being able to see the midwife every month and getting bigger and being able to share your pregnancy with someone whose job it is to pretend to be interested. DH really wants to go, even though he's on night shift right now and he's supposed to be sleeping when I have my appointment. I told him everything that's going to happen and that it won't be very long or very interesting, but he's still intent on going. I love that silly man.

I weighed myself this morning after I peed and it looks on my HOME scale that I've gained only about a pound since last appointment... but that's my own personal scale, so you know when I go to my doctor's office it's going to show me as having gained five pounds or something. I'm trying not to get too optimistic about my weight gain... but if it comes up as 4 pounds or less gained, I'll be a happy camper. I know with my diet lately I'll be lucky to get away with that little.