21 Weeks and Counting

YES! An actual UPDATE!

Now that you may be recovering from shock, read on....

I am actally 25 weeks, going on 26, but this is the most recent updated picture of "the belly". I'll be sure to get another one up soon since I am such a fantastic blogger these days. I just became disinterested in resizing images and uploading them to blogger. My files are usually no less than 1meg each and I don't have patience to wait for 5 of those to upload. I have better things to do. So this is it for now; I do have a 4th of July post in the process. Sorry for any disappointment.

Again, a self-portrait although I'm going to be getting Maternity pictures done soon before I get too large and bulky.

It was around this time that I started experiencing pelvic pain and the begining stages of swelling. A bit early for the swelling if you ask me. As far as the pelvic pain, totally not okay. The more I do, the worse it gets. It's hard to move sometimes, difficult to lift my right leg past a certain point, it wakes me up at night, and I can get about 2 hours of any type of consistent walking/shopping/moving before I am ready to kill over. I didn't experience this with my other two but no two pregnancies are alike, right? So it seems. So what this means for me? No gym time! I was doing really well and excited about trying to keep off a lot of the pregnancy weight but now that's shot in the wind and I'm going to have EXTRA work to do in the end and I can almost feel my butt expanding at every meal time. All in the name of love for my baby.

 Another difference is the activity of this child. I can't believe how much he moves and kicks me. I was at the doctor a couple of weeks ago and the doctor kept having to relocate the heart beat because this little guy would persistently knock off the doppler. He's simply good at locating pressure points and making sure he relieves himself of anyone or anything that taxes his gig.

Lana and Kayden are really getting to feel him move and their first reactions were so cute. Kayden laid is face on my tummy and when he felt the baby kick him, he lifted his head up with a grand smile, rubbing his cheek and said, "he kicked me". Lana is simply giddy and keeps saying that she wants him to come out now. I've explained many times that he would be sick, wouldn't get to come home with us and would have to stay in the hospital a long time if he came out now. Once I remind her of that she is okay with him staying inside for a few more weeks until time passes and it feels like another eternity to her. She likes to look in my pregnancy book and chart his progress. I hope Kayden handles the transition well from being the baby for almost 4 years to being the middle child and the older brother. Keilana, I have no doubts that I will only get to feed the baby and change his poops. She will insist on doing everything else. At almost 6 years old, I'm sure she will be capable of doing for him so long as I teach her how to hold him and pick him up. She's very mature for her age and HIGHLY responsible. We'll see how everyone adjusts to #3--I'm sure it will be fabulous. MY main fear? The early stages of breast feeding. I'm not looking forward to those first weeks of enduring sharp pains and cringing when feeding time rolls around.