Monday, December 9, 2013

26 weeks

I can't beleive I am already 6 1/2 months this week! I am sooooo thankful and thrilled that I am getting to experience this pregnancy completely complication free so far! By this gestsatin with the twins I would have been on my 3rd week in the hospital with several more to go (and they'd still be 2 mo early), so this will never get old to me...that I am totally OK, that baby is OK, and I am healthy and just living and loving life pregnant!
Weight gain so far: 9 lbs
Sleep: Not great the past week! For the past week I am officially no longer able to comfortably able to sleep on my tummy which stinks!! I am complete tummy sleeper and so I have a hard time sleeping now, getting and staying comfortable. But I got to for 6 months which is way longer than with the twins and longer than I expected so I'll take it.
Cravings: Just still having a sweet tooth...which is just so weird to me...I am just not a huge sweet person...but I love them with this pregnancy. With the Holidays happening, it can'y be good! Sweet EVERYWHERE!
Still having my bi monthly cervix ultrasounds and I have one in the morning in fact. I always still get anxious for them because they are of course the thing that changed my world upside down with the twins, finding out at my appt that I was in preterm labor with a barely there cervix...every appointment I have flash backs...but so far every appointment has been PERFECT! My cervix is a 4.2 which is very long, very good and just about as perfect as can be. So God has been so good and after each cervix ultrasound I feel so much relief and and thankfulness! They def give me so much peace of mind!

I am noticing how heavy my belly feels to me. How it pulls on my back and just feels so heavy and I feel like I can literally feel it stretching. While I have of course been 26 weeks pregnant before, I spent from week 23 all the way to 32 in the hospital, in a bed. Barely ever sat up let alone GOT up so I really never knew what it felt or looked like when my belly was growing. I am feeling vert thankful that I am getting to experience this new part of it! From 23 weeks on, everything will be new to me and I that's what I always hope, dreamed and prayed for. I just feel so insanely blessed that I am getting to live my dream and answered prayer. I am def not taking a single day for granted, I am soaking it in, living it up and trying to take it all in!

The twins are adorable, they say things like "wow mommy your belly IS getting big!" Or Kaleiah will ask me "how big is the baby now?" Their faces are still priceless when they feel her kick and move :)


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