20 WEEKS GONE & 20 MORE TO GO
posted on 01/07/2008
I'm half way there! Only 20 more weeks until we meet our baby boy. It is nice to be at the half way mark that everyone talks about. I'm definitely starting to see the changes in my body. My baby bump turned into a belly over the weekend for starters. Although it was very kind of those of you who voted that I wouldn't show until Valentine's Day. He is also moving around more. I woke up at 3am and he wouldn't stop moving until about 4:30. It feels like he is already bored! So I guess this is a big mile stone for him too. He should weigh about 10oz and be about 10" total length. His little brain it starting to rapidly grow and he can hear. That is why we went to the bookstore yesterday and bought some Mother Goose and other books to start reading to him. It made me realize that none of the furniture sets that we looked at, which were a lot, include a book shelf. I find that odd. I also bought a lot of clothes for him, and I didn't think it would be so much fun buying little boy clothes but I was wrong! Oh, and I discovered over the weekend that he likes Dave Mathews. I was watching VH1 unplugged Friday and he started moving around alot, and he hadn't moved at all that day until then. Good taste! So now I'm playing DMB cd's in my car & at work for him.
So anyway, 20 more weeks and the real fun begins. There have been so many "phases" of this half of the pregnancy. First there was shock, then there were tears, then lots of paranoia, more tears, zero energy, then so many questions, then bliss for a while, then high anxiety & more paranoia, and now just planning...and the tears never really stopped. I'm just so excited all the time now!! And that makes me cry too! Bryce just had the shock and excitement part. No questions of course b/c he know all. We just hope this half is as wonderful and uneventful, in a good way, as the first half. And no stretch marks would be a nice gift too.
