Sorry, no Wordless Wednesday this week (or for the past couple of months), all my recent pictures are already posted so I thought I would just do a little pregnancy post. So here are a few recent things...
- I am 19 weeks tomorrow. This means that because I'm going to have a c-section at 39 weeks by the end of the weekend I am halfway through this pregnancy. Time has FLOWN by.
- The little baby thumps I've been feeling for a couple of weeks are now getting stronger and more regular. I think that is my favorite part of pregnancy. I've never been one of those women who claims to love being pregnant. I seem to get all the bad symptoms (especially this time with being so sick the entire third month) but feeling the baby move is so sweet.
- I am really showing. I look probably the same as many women do at 6 months or more. I know this is normal in many cases for a third pregnancy but sometimes it's still weird to me. The good thing is I have not gained any weight. I lost about 5-7 kg (11-15 lbs) in the four or five weeks I was sick but as soon as I was able to eat real food again it came right back. (side note: I always tell my weight in kg because that's the kind of scale I have there so that is more accurate than giving it just in pounds.)
- This weekend Stan and I are going to KM (the capital) for a short getaway to celebrate our 5 Year Anniversary that is coming up at the end of the month. While we are there we plan to go to a hospital that works a lot with foreigners. We will get a thorough sonogram to measure all the usual things. There is about a 20% chance they will tell us the baby's gender. It's against the law here to find out but rumor has it they may tell a foreigner. We are praying hard that everything will look good and that they will have pity on this momma and let me know pink or blue.
- We both (well I guess I should say the whole family) feel like this is a girl. Some facts: I have been more sick, hormonal, etc. with this pregnancy than with both of the boys--my symptoms with both of them were very similar. For the first time we have agreed on a girl name (and did so within a week of finding out I was pregnant) but don't have a for sure boy name--with the boys we had a boy name picked out as soon as we found out we were pregnant but never could agree on a girl name. Every baby thought I have includes pink--I've always been drawn to blue in the past and just adored the girl clothes from a far. And lastly, the pencil test is undoubtedly saying girl. All of these things could mean nothing but are still all true.
I will keep you updated on how this weekend goes and I'm sure I will have some stories from the weekend. If not from boring us, from the family that is so graciously keeping Kirby and Bennett while we are gone.
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