As of yesterday, I am 24 weeks, 6 MONTHS pregnant!! How can that be? I feel like so far, this pregnancy is just flying by. I'm sure that will change though since about every pregnant woman I've ever talked to has said she felt pregnant forever! But as of right now, I'm hoping time slows down a little. We haven't even started on the nursery yet and haven't bought any of the big items! Here's a picture of my 6 months belly. Sorry for my messy closet in the background, although I'm sure you all are used to that by now since I think every pic has had my messy closet behind it!
I'm definitely feeling pregnant....in a good way! I feel her kick and move all the time now. Right now my uterus is about 1-2 inches above my belly button so I'm starting to feel her much higher up. But most of the time, she likes to hide way down low and just wiggle around. Her movement used to be limited to mid morning and mid afternoon, but now I'm feeling her all times of day...and night! I've woken up at 3am more than once feeling her kicking and I usually wake up in the morning to kicking as well. Rusty can feel her all the time now, although it seems like as soon as he puts his hand on my belly to feel her, she'll just stop! But I'm just feeling such a bond with her already and can't wait to meet her! Here are a few pics from my last ultrasound taken about 2 weeks ago. Profile :)
Flippin her booty in the air! (look at those long legs!)
I think she was in the middle of throwing her head back :)
Lately we've been having the most rain and the worst storms I can ever remember. We haven't had too many flooding problems around Indy, but a lot of IN, especially southern IN, has had major flooding. It seems the rain will never end! Its storming right now actually. The very worst storm we had was last Tuesday night. The storming started at around midnight and didn't end until about 6am Wednesday morning. That was also the week our AC went out so we had all the windows open so we woke up to the loudest claps of thunder I have ever heard! To top it all off, Rusty was out of town for work and I must admit, I was a little scared!! I tried to capture a good picture of the storm coming in, but this was the best I could get:
I feel like so far I've had a pretty "boring" pregnancy...not that I'm complaining, I know I'm very blessed! I never really had "morning sickness" other than a nauseous feeling when I would go too long without eating. I haven't experienced many of the pregnancy type things I read about, and really haven't had too many cravings! When I do have a craving, I actually get kinda excited because it makes me feel like a typical pregnant woman! Some of the cravings I have had:
*oatmeal cream pie (little debbie), buffalo flavored chicken tenders or pattie, chocolate milk, dr. pepper, watermelon, baked cheetos
Those are the ones I can think of for now, I'm sure there have been more though! I also have been having pretty vivid dreams. I have always been a big dreamer and I can usually remember my dreams. But the dreams have gotten a little more vivid and much weirder since being pregnant! A funny one I had recently was that I was in labor and delivered the baby, and it was a boy, not a girl ( I was so mad at my dr )! As soon as I had him, they took him away and a bunch of dr's came in to take care of me ( i guess there were some complications ). They all went into the hallway to discuss my case and then the next thing I know, all the dr's ( I think there were 4 or 5 of them ) just started running straight at me! They just kept doing that over and over! I remember thinking in my dream that they were trying to push the baby back in side of me for some reason!! It was very strange!! Its funny too...all the dreams I've ever had where I'm actually having the baby have ended up that the baby is a boy. Lets hope that isn't a sign of what will happen!! But my mom said she always dreamed that she was having a boy and she had 3 girls :)
Well this has been a long post and Iron Chef is on, so I'm going to sign off for tonight! We have so many things coming up so I will try to post soon to keep everyone updated with our life!
