Week 24

We have made it to a very important week...viability! 

I can definitely tell the baby is getting stronger and growing.  The past few weeks I can't believe how much the baby is moving.  I read that most babies sleep 12-14 hours a day but I am not so sure about our baby.  There is a lot of wiggles and kicks and some days I am pretty sure  there is a dance party inside of me!  It has been a lot of fun for Dan.  He has felt the baby almost every day this past week!  The downside to all this movement is that it starts a round 4:30am in the morning.  I am very thankful for the twists and squirms but a little nervous about what this means when the baby is born.  Dan is already trying to come up with a plan to train baby while inside of me. Good luck with that!

The baby is a size of a cantaloupe and I can definitely tell.  My stomach feels as like it is growing by the day.  Dan reassures me that it is OK but isn't that what he is suppose to say?  When it is your first pregnancy, I would hope most women could agree that a growing belly is a little hard to get use to.  You don't have anything to compare to, you see the scale go up by more than 1lbs here/there and clothes don't fit the way you thought they were going to.  Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't have it any other way, but that is the honest truth. 

Week 24 :

• Leg Cramps:  I have been waking the past few nights with awful cramps in my calves.  I have started eating 2 bananas a day and 12-16 glasses of water.  I am hoping this will alleviate the cramping that is happening at night.
• Reading:  I have been reading a book and bible story out loud to the baby before bed.  It is crazy how the baby starts moving when he/she hears my voice.  I am completely in love!  We have been reading a few of my favorite books & we are up to Joseph and the colorful coat Bible story:
• A Bedtime Kiss for Chester by Audrey Penn
• A Pocket Full of Kisses  by Audrey Penn
• The Kissing Hand  by Audrey Penn
• Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman
• Tales of Peter Rabbit  by Beatrix Potter
• Frog and Toad are Friends by Doris Roettger
• My Dad is a Superhero by Lily Lexington (Dan's favorite as well)
• There's No Such Thing As Monsters by Michael Yu

It may be the stripes, as my mother always told me horizontal stripes do nothing for you, but I am feeling rather large this week :)