I can not believe that I am almost halfway through this pregnancy. And this might very well be my last pregnancy as well, so I’m trying to soak up every last bit of it. These weeks has been a lot of waking up in panic because I’m on my back… AGAIN! I’m a back sleeper, and as I’m getting closer to 20 weeks I know I should avoid sleeping on my back. It has also been the birthday week for my husband, so we have been celebrating that. I’ve also started getting feeling some hip pain.
19 WEEKS
What is going on in my body this week
I am starting to feel that I am getting bigger. Finding a comfortable position to sleep in is getting more challenging. I know that it’s only uphill from here in that regard, but I feel like this pregnancy has been fairly easy up until this point. I am very appreciative of my pregnancy pillow, it is way better than the one I had the last pregnancy. This one is a full U-shape and it actually helps me from laying totally flat on my back. But I do wake up on my back every now and then. And I always wake up slightly panicked about it since I feel like I have zero control over it. The pregnancy pillow definitely helps, but my body just wants to be on my back..
I have also started to feel what I believe is Braxton Hicks contractions? I don’t remember feeling this in my first pregnancy until the last 5 weeks maybe. And they were never really that strong. I was very surprised when I started to feel them now, but I believe that it’s pretty common.
What is going on in my head this week
I have started to think about names a little bit more. I have one name that I am very set on, because I have this feeling that it is his name. Buuut, Andy doesn’t agree with me. This is the first time that I have started to understand that we are actually getting close to halfway there, and I think the realization of that kick started a little bit of a name stress in me.
Getting close to the halfway mark has also got me thinking about labor. I bought a book a while ago that I’ve been wanting to read, and I think I have to start picking it up if I want to finish it before the baby gets here! Because the weeks go by faster than I could ever think they would.
What is going on in our lives this week
It was Andy’s birthday this week, so we celebrated that! We went to the Underwoods farms to pet animals and pick berries. I think it might have been more of a gift for Lea than Andy, but we all enjoyed it.
Andy also got to feel the first baby kicks this week! I remember this happened much later last pregnancy, so it came as a bit of a surprise. I didn’t think he would be able to feel them yet, but he did! That was exciting, and I think that made things feel a bit more real for him as well.
20 WEEKS
What’s going on in my body this week
This week I have started to feel a bit of pain in the afternoon if I’ve been active during the day. I get some weird hip (I think?) pain if I have been out and about all day. I don’t remember this from my last pregnancy. I also find it harder and harder to lie down comfortably. But more than lying down, it’s getting much harder to get up from the bed. And at this point the bathroom visits each night are annoyingly many.
I am still very tired at night. It’s not the tiredness that I had in the first trimester that is paralyzing, but at the end of the day I have no energy for anything. I’m just done and ready for bed.
What’s going on in my head this week
I don’t know why, but I am getting so anxious about my 20-week scan this pregnancy. I keep thinking that I have one healthy baby, could I really be so lucky as to get two!? I remember that with my last pregnancy I was so busy worrying about miscarriages, that I didn’t have much time to worry about anything being wrong. But as I’m feeling him kicking and moving every day now, maybe this is just my anxious mind finding something else to worry about.
What’s going on in our lives this week
I’ve been really busy with work this week. I have been shooting a lot and I’ve also been helping out in the studio that I used to work at. It’s been hard to keep up with it all. When I shoot a lot I have to work during night to keep up with editing and all the things that running a business requires. With the lack of energy it’s hard to keep it up. I just want to pass out at 7pm and sleep all night. But I have a toddler that parties until 9pm at least, and then I have all the work that needs to be done. I’s hard to tell a tired pregnant body to stay awake and go back to work when all it wants is to sleep! A pregnant body definitely knows what it wants.
