24 Weeks

How far along: 24 weeks
How big is Baby: Size of a cantaloupe
 Maternity Clothes: Almost everything I wear now minus some shirts are maternity. It's more just for comfort, I'm still not that big. A lot of shirts I still fit into though that aren't maternity but I usually don't wear those out
Sleep: Pretty good so far. I usually wake up to go to the bathroom at least once but go back to sleep pretty quickly as long as I am not having heartburn or those pains in my stomach
Movement: I feel the baby a lot especially in the morning and at night
Food cravings: Not too much, I've started to eat some more sweets and chocolate but I'm trying to not eat so much of that anymore but it's hard with Halloween now! I do love my apples right now with carmel dip though :)
Food aversions: Nothing at all that I can think of
Gender: Another little girl :)
Symptoms: Lots of baby kicking, pains in my stomach, peeing all the time
Nursery Progress: None - I did buy a few clothes from Carters from the clearance online but nothing else. Going to try to work on some of that this week like going through old stuff and cleaning it all
Best moment this week: All the kicking!
What I am looking forward to: Next appointment on Nov 13th and then I think biweekly appts after that with ultrasound too I believe! I can't believe we only have 4 months left!!!

Small Update

So catching up….we found out that this baby is another girl. We pretty much suspected that anyways but it was nice to have it confirmed. I’ve started trying to clear out what I can of the room that will be her nursery (right now it’s our computer room). Not too easy when hubby isn’t home during the week and Tricia wants to help (aka destroy) everything. So it’s slow progress but it’s happening.

I did have a trip to the L&D ER Triage yesterday. I had some pretty serious pains in my stomach. They really can’t come up with anything – all of my blood work is normal. I’m not having contractions. So they think it might just be spasms of the muscles in my stomach right now. Man they hurt though! She said take Tylenol – that helps a bit but not completely. I do feel like I’m getting bigger now so maybe that is it but I know I certainly didn’t have this pain last time around! I just was scared because I know I ignored pains last pregnancy and it turned out to be the HELLP syndrome – not doing that again. I would rather go and make sure everything is ok then not.

Not much going on right now besides work, take care of Tricia and try not to fall over from exhaustion each week while Ben is gone. I’m hoping he starts being able to spend some more time home soon but I’m worried that’s not going to happen with some things that are going on. We will see though. I do know things are getting harder for me to do (laundry up and down the stairs, cleaning the house, etc.).

Next appointment isn’t until November 13 now so another 4 weeks to go again. And not long after that they will start the monitoring for my HELLP syndrome. Fun times!