24 Weeks

Tomorrow I am 24 weeks!  Time is really starting to go quickly.  At my doctor's appointment today, she informed me that this is the last time I will visit monthly.  March 21st begins my bi-weekly appointments!  Wow!  Hard to believe it's starting to come so quickly.  And I only have 3 weeks left until I'm in my 3rd trimester.  His heartrate today was in the lower 160's again.  She said, "Boy, he's REALLY active!"  In which I replied, "Tell me about it."  :P  He is VERY active!  I'm actually sitting here right now watching my belly move like crazy.  Kyle loves to feel him move.  The doctor said my placenta is at the back, which is why I will feel him move a lot.  She said everything looked great and right on target.  They were finally happy that I've started gaining some weight!  I'm still 4 pounds under where I started, but I'm almost there and they're so glad!  And my belly button is starting to poke out, haha! 

He's still the size of a papaya, but only for the rest of the week.  Then we move up to eggplant!

 

His skin is finally starting not to be so transparent.  He's finally getting some fat on him, so now you can't see his insides as easily.  Speaking of weight, he gains about 6 oz. a week now!  His face is almost fully formed, with eyelashes and eyebrows.  And any hair he has is white for the moment - there's no pigmentation quite yet.

As for me (which isn't nearly as interesting), I'm actually feeling pretty great!  My ribs feel a little bruised, which she said is totally normal from all the growing and expanding that's going on.  I also have tingliness/numbness around my ribs, ankles, and hands, which she said is also normal because he's just hitting on nerves.  I am now to the point where I can no longer put on socks or shave my legs without bending my body in awkward positions to try to get it done.  Some days I even have Kyle put on my socks! :P  The nausea comes and goes, but I finally have pills that work almost instantaneously.  I'm not able to eat a whole lot, and if I do I totally regret it.  There's just not much room for food!  Probably another reason I haven't really put on much weight.  Although, my belly is getting very large.  I had someone come up to me over the weekend and they were shocked I'm only 24 weeks.  She said, "Wow!  That's all?!?!  You look much further along than that!  Your belly is so big!  You're going to be huge by time that baby arrives!"  Yes.  I feel gargantuan already.  I feel like I get so much bigger each and every week, which is true.  Can't wait to see what I look like in April and May, haha!  I have to do my glucose tolerance test and be checked for low iron in 3 weeks.  Not quite looking forward to that, but whatever.  :P

The nursery is starting to SLOWLY take shape.  The glider and ottoman are all set up, we have a lamp, and I bought some CUTE framed pictures at Hobby Lobby on Thursday!  I got both of them for $22.50 total.  One is of an elephant (our theme for the room) and the other has a baby carriage with "Babies are a blessing from God" on it.  Too cute!  Can't wait until we have a few more things in there so I can post some pics.  The registries are complete (I think...no really...for real this time).  We are registered at Babies 'R Us and Pottery Barn Kids.

I will check back in soon!