I have started to notice differences in my body and am now wearing maternity pants as my regular pants are a bit snug around the waist. I have lost 9lbs since finding out I was pregnant - part of that is due to healthier eating, part is due to a total lack of appetite.
My appetite is slowly coming back now that I'm on the mend from the pneumonia (the dr & midwife both said it could be 6 weeks before I'm completely better). We had our ultrasound last Wednesday and got to see our baby again. It was so cool! The baby was moving all around and the ultrasound technician was so great at pointing out everything to us and got us some great photos (I'll try and figure out a way to get them online) No profile photos which the technician tried really hard to get but baby wouldn't cooperate. Hopefully in the next week or 2 we will find out if I'm carrying our son or daughter, then we can start saying he or she and look a little harder on finding names!
Baby's now the size of a cantaloupe!
Baby gulps down several ounces of amniotic fluid every day, both for nutrition and to practice swallowing and digesting. And, these days, those taste buds actually work! Studies show that after birth, babies respond best to tastes they've already had via amniotic fluid. Meaning, think about what you'd like your future child to eat as you prepare your own lunch.
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I remember the halfway point. I was so sick for the first 3 months that getting halfway was kind of like, "You mean I'm half done, already!" Fun! Junior didn't cooperate for us with the first photos either so ours are this blur of movement :)It'll be fun for you to see how your body changes from here. I remember being 20 weeks and feeling like not much was different from how I looked before other than my pants being tight. Now at almost 26 weeks I'm carrying all out front. From the front I have a waist for the first time in a long time, and from the side I look like I have a squishy basketball under my shirt! My stomach is hard and round. It's so fun!
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