I'm 28 weeks and that's somewhere around 6 1/2 months. The pregnancy calendar is really weird because there's no way for our advanced technology to measure the exact day of conception (you win again nature!) so the calendar begins on the first day of the last menstrual cycle - at which point there's no way you could have possibly been pregnant yet - but ultimately that means the calendar ends 10 months later, which is about 40 weeks. So i'm 28/40th pregnant, but my due date is 8/1 which is 10 weeks away not 12 so it doesn't really make sense but who cares, the baby will come when he's good and ready and for me that's going to be anywhere between the end of July and the beginning of August.
So then, here's what you missed so far:
- Constant peeing and swollen boobs, those were my first symptoms before I knew.
- Um.. honey, the stick has two lines on it. . . (silence, pause for shock factor)
- The telling to the fam at Christmas, tears of joy and no champagne for me.
- Some nausea in the first trimester but it didn't last that long - about 3-4 weeks of sickyness. oh and by the way the whole 'morning sickness' thing is a complete misnomer, it's any-time-of-day sickness.
- My pooch started to be more and more noticeable after about 4 months, i think the 5th month was the growth spurt that took me from no one knowing to needing pants with an expandable waistline.
- It's a boy! (Josh knew all along of course, a man's premonition of his male offspring is a powerful thing)
- I felt movement pretty early on, though it was more of a fluttering than 'kicking' until about 16 weeks. The first real kick came when I was in bed ready to sleep one night and I just felt this sudden energetic ticklish lump pop out from my belly and that was the first time this little guy became really really real to me, 'hello, I'm in here!'
- I wasn't totally happy with my OB and I knew right away I didn't want a medicated hospital birth but I kept seeing the same doctor (who was my gyno) and all my tests and labs came back good and healthy (except that I'm mildly hypothyroid which means I have to supplement with a particular hormone my body does not produce enough of).
- Growing Growing Growing
So I'm in the third trimester now and man am I slowing down! I mean, I'm a New Yorker and if I was stuck walking behind myself I'd be really annoyed. But slowly my body has become used to this new state of being and if I'm not careful when standing after sitting, or god forbid I have to run, or lift anything, then I'll pay the consequences - in the form of back pain, or muscle acheyness in the belly, or a leg cramp, you name it! I just have to be slow and careful and stretch daily and try to relax, not always easy but I want this baby to be cool and happy and not one of those whiney annoying cry babies who have anxiety before the tender age of 6 months and that means: Me, Now, Relaxed, Satnam.
Anyway, that's where I'm at, more to come, in the meantime here's a 5 second video of this baby's tenacity (no I don't quite know if that's a head or a butt).
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