Your Pregnancy @ 20 wks
How does your pregnant body feel? a little clumsy and off balanced at time, but otherwise fine.
What changes have you noticed? nothing too major, a little more bump is the biggest change.
Have you had any morning sickness? No
Are you experiencing any strange cravings? Or are there some foods you can't stand any more? No cravings still... and most of the food aversions have disappeared.
Are you showing? When did your belly become obvious? Yes I'm showing, but it seems to have only become really obvious that it's preg bump in the last couple of weeks.
Have you had to buy any maternity clothing? nothing bought since the few shirts around 16 wks, although I have a feeling it won't be too much longer before I need some pants - seems baby and belly both hit a growth spurt in the last week making putting on my normal jeans/pants slightly uncomfortable even with using a belly band or waist extender.
How do you feel about your belly? Protective still - amused somewhat by the limited interactions/movement I've felt. It's starting to get a little in the way for normal activities and I'm finding that I have to shift a little differently to get out of bed so I don't put a lot of pressure on my belly.
Have you felt baby move yet? What does it feel like? Still really only feeling the slight tickling sensation mainly, although I have feel something like precise pressure points off and on - not like a kick or punch, more just like baby is stretching something out until it touches.
Have you seen baby on ultrasound? What details were you able to see? How did it feel to see the little being growing in your belly? Just had the Anatomy Ultrasound the 31 of March... sleepy baby but got to see hands/fingers, feet/toes, face, nose, mouth, organs (including blood flow to the different organs), and gender... I just loved getting to see sleepy baby get jiggled and the hands come up to the face to rub eyes or to suck on the hand/fingers. I really wish I would have recorded the session cause it was cute!!
Have you found out the gender of you baby? What were your reasons for deciding to find out / not to find out? We did find out but we're keeping it a secret for the time... the husband wanted to find out cause he just had to know, I didn't care either way at this point but I knew I would have liked to know before baby was born.
Have you done any preparation at home for baby's arrival? Painted the nursery and ordered crib/furniture set.
Note: The weight has started to come back slowly in the last 4 weeks... I was down from my pre-preg weight about 15lbs at the house at one point (from 192lbs-177lbs) around the 16wk mark, but now I'm sitting about 186lbs-188lbs so I've gained back about 10lbs in the last 4wks. I'm going to blame that on the chocolate cake that I made for a going away party (and easily can claim to have eaten half) and the junk food that has been eaten in place of me of J cooking for dinner because we've both been getting home SO late at night in the last couple of weeks - the cake is now gone, the junk food I am trying to put on halt, and the sun has been out more often so we'll see how goes this next 4wks... I'm really hoping to try and stay under the 15-25lbs gain, specially where I'm already so wired up about gestational diabetes and pre-eclampsia presenting possible issues down the road.
Also tomorrow I will start getting some photos taken... I've decided that I want to do progression photos - I wanted to start at 16wks but that just didn't work out, so we're starting at 20 weeks and will take a photo every 4wks until birth. I've also got it worked out that we are going to do a gender reveal thing toward the end of this month or beginning of May (I can't wait to get that done) for the Virtual BS (babyshower)... the Maternity photo shoot will be done in late June or July, I haven't decided yet which but I'll probably put off the decision until those months get a little closer.
It's all getting a little more real every day... still can't wait for the baby's movements to become more noticeable - more importantly I can't wait till they can be felt from the outside so that J can feel it too!!!
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