Monday, November 18, 2013

20 Things for 20 Weeks!

1. The baby is supposedly the size of a banana or a small cantaloupe, depending on which pregnancy website you look at. For me this means I've got a pretty formidable bump going on!
Catch ya later, feet!
2. I'm feeling really great right now! I regained a lot of energy that was zapped out of me during the first trimester. I really do forget I'm pregnant sometimes, Hannah helps a lot with that! 
3. Heart burn has begun! I was actually pretty surprised by this symptom despite it being quite common among other woman. My pregnancy with Hannah actually cured my GERD, probably because I stopped drinking wine almost every night. 
4. I'm having crazy pregnancy insomnia. Many nights I wake up around midnight and can't get to sleep again for another 2 hours. Today I've been up since 3:30 am. 
5. Eli and I have been feeling a little guilty about not paying more attention to this pregnancy with baby #2, so on Saturday we went to Babies R' Us and started a registry. It was very different from last time and pretty much the only thing on our minds was diapers, diapers, diapers!
I think he got me. 
6. 138 days until my due date! 
7. After much deliberation we decided to deliver baby #2 at the same hospital where Hannah was born. We had such a great experience the first time around we didn't want to mess with it! 
8. We're in the middle of trying to prepare for the new baby which means moving Hannah to her own big girl bed. It's not going well. 
9. When we ask Hannah "what's in Mommy's belly?" she'll now say "baby!" and start talking at it. Cutest. Thing. Ever.
10. We had the 20 week anatomy scan this week and everything is looking great! We chose not to find out the gender! 
Profile shot! 
11. I'm going on record with my guess of girl but I have nothing scientific to back that up (seriously, we don't know). 
12. Eli thinks it's a boy. 
13. Hannah thinks it's whatever gender we say last when we ask her. "Is it a boy or a girl?"- "Girl!", "Is it a girl or a boy?" - "Boy!". 
14. I'm a lot less nervous for the delivery this time around but we'll see how I feel at full term! 
15. I'm a lot more anxious about life after the delivery & hospital stay. 
16. I can feel the baby kicking away now, but Eli hasn't been able to feel it yet.
17. Hannah was a tiger for Halloween. This has nothing to do with pregnancy other than the fact that I managed to give myself a stomachache Halloween night from all of the candy I devoured. I crave sweets! 
Too Cute! 
18. My stomach has grown a lot faster this time around. 

20 Weeks with Hannah! 
20 Weeks and a lot bigger with baby 2!
19. I'm really trying to get back on track with healthy eating. During the first trimester all I wanted was bagels and cereal. 
20. I started to cry when thinking about a present for the baby to give Hannah when they first meet. Unfortunately, I was in Babies R' Us at the time. 

I'm so anxious to meet this little one and become a family of four but I'm also trying to soak in what's left of pregnancy! Only 20 weeks, yikes!