25 Weeks - and Hiccups

Brief update this morning. I am 25 weeks today (according to a November 21 due date); and this morning at 4:15 as I was lying in bed unable to fall back asleep, I think I felt Baby hiccuping for the first time! :) I was lying on my right side and my left arm was across the lower part of my belly and I felt a faint, rhythmic bumping - not as hard as some kicks and too slow to be my own pulse. It quit soon after I felt it (maybe 45 seconds of rhythmic "bumps"?), but I had gotten excited and that is probably why I couldn't fall asleep again until almost 6! ;-)

(One other update: current weight on our home scale as of this morning/25 weeks was 179.0 lbs; so I'm up 14.5 pounds in 25 weeks so far. If I continue at the "textbook" one-pound-per-week average from now on, I'm in for a total weight gain of about 30 pounds. Hoping it won't be more than that! I really don't want to see 200-anything on the scale.)

15 weeks to go!

Bump Buddies - Cousins in the Making

Mary was 38 weeks along and I was 24 weeks (and a couple of days :)) along when we all got together on Sunday, August 3 to celebrate my 28th birthday. Won't be too much longer and she'll be holding a baby and my bump will be closer to the size hers is now! ;-) And then a little while after that and we'll both be holding our babies! Can't wait to meet them, find out their genders, see what they look like, and get to know these precious little ones!

Weeks 23 and 24

About Week 23, I noticed for the first time that I could see Baby's movements/kicks on the outside - not just feel them! Since then (I am now 24w4d), they have become visible more frequently.

Baby's movements also seem to be getting stronger... I'm not sure if my placenta (which was anterior) has shifted or if I can now feel the baby through the placenta better. It used to be that I only felt movements down low or off to the left. Last night, I felt and saw them over on the right; and I have felt them up high (a few centimeters above my belly button) a few times.

A new symptom that kicked in last week is constipation - possibly because of being on retreat from July 28 through August 2 and the diet changes that happened in conjunction with that; possibly just because of pregnancy. I almost never have trouble with that basic function, so I have a newfound compassion for those that do - it can be so uncomfortable! :-/

This was my pre-retreat belly picture. ;-) I was 23w3d.

My next appointment is 2 weeks from yesterday (on Monday, August 18) - and after that, appointments will be every 2 weeks until I'm 36 weeks along! :)