I find it amazing how much one can love someone they've never met. I'm sure it's partially the hormones - after all, we've evolved to love our progeny so we take care of them. But it's just incredible. Feeling Oliver move in there, especially now that instead of just kicks and rolling motions, I'm feeling his body parts more clearly and it feels like an actual baby in there moving around... it's just indescribable how it feels. I find myself waking up in the middle of the night, to pee or whatever, but once I lay back down, I stay awake for a while because I'm busy feeling him move around. I find I don't want to take my hands off of my belly during the day because I want to feel him as much as possible, and although of course I can feel him even when I'm not touching my stomach, to feel him from the outside is just so cool.
I really can't wait to meet him and get to know him "on the outside". At the same time, I think I'm really going to miss being pregnant!
For whatever reason, my body seems to take very well to this whole pregnancy thing. Last week, just to potentially torture myself, I decided to try on my favorite pair of pre-pregnancy jeans. To see if I've gained weight in my legs. Yeah, because *that's* usually a good idea!! Anyway, I shocked myself to see that it didn't seem like my legs or rear end have gotten any bigger, and actually I could still zip & button them!! I can't say it would have been very comfortable to wear them, but I thought that was pretty exciting. Then, the other night I noticed, almost ALL of the cellulite on my thighs is GONE! I'm not sure how that's even possible, but I'm not going to argue. And, my face is so much smoother and more clearly complected than it has been since pre-puberty. It's pretty awesome!!
And besides those vain things, I have just felt so good during this pregnancy! Of course I've had my moments and had days where I'm sure I complained a lot about back pain etc but overall, especially compared to how some others have it, I have felt great. Minimal morning sickness, haven't had any problems with any early contracting, my cervix is competent (woohoo go cervix!), and my aches and pains are really not that bad.
Ok onto how he's doing this week! 32 weeks, so we are less than two months away now!
How Far Along: 32 weeks
Total weight gain: 21lbs
Sleep: It's been very good! Usually just waking up once a night to pee and able to get back to sleep without too much of a struggle.
What do you miss: Hmmm nothing I can think of right now.
Movement: Yes lots of strong movements!!
Food cravings: Nothing really.
Anything making you queasy or sick: Nope
Symptoms: Starting to get a few more non-BH like cramps occasionally, it's harder to bend over and do stuff, back getting a little more sore.
Belly button in or out? Still in.
Wedding rings on or off? On.
Happy or moody most of the time: Happy :)
Best part of the week: Finding out he's not breech anymore!!! I know he can still change, but I'm hoping he's staying put in the vertex position!
Looking forward to: Tonight we go to the Sprout Swap and get to by some cloth diapers!
So, he is about 3.75 lbs (weight of a jicama) this week and should be putting on about half a pound a week at this point. He is 16.7" long, or something like that. BabyCenter says he now has fingernails, toenails, and hair too - although in Juno the girl outside the abortion clinic informed that babies have fingernails as early as like 12 weeks? So who knows. I guess he has them now either way :) He's mostly busy just putting on weight and getting chubbier for his grand entrance sometime in April!
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