Has it really been four weeks since I last blogged? Man...I really suck at this whole thing! Here's to improvement, right?
Today I am 19 weeks and 3 days pregnant. My pants are definitely becoming uncomfortable, but there's no way that maternity clothes would stay on my body right now. Really, if you passed me in the grocery store (and didn't know I was pregnant) you'd never know it. Sleeping is starting to get uncomfortable now, and has been especially difficult this last week with the anticipation of our ultrasound tomorrow.
In the last couple of weeks I've been feeling a lot of movement. Some patterns beginning to develop but nothing consistent, yet. In the late evening I can lay in bed and feel the baby flopping around and kicking. On Sunday I had Justin put his hand on my belly to see if he could feel it. I had thought I'd felt it from the outside but wasn't sure if I was feeling it because I could also feel it on the inside so I decided to test it. I didn't say anything and allowed Justin to sit and feel and tell me when he felt things. He definitely was feeling the waves of baby pushing and kicks. Then, I swear, the kid did a summersault. I jumped! What a strange and cool sensation! It's neat to finally be able to share in what I'm feeling. I kind of felt like I was hogging the experience.
Tomorrow morning at 7:15 we have our second ultrasound. I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!! We're really keeping our fingers crossed that we can tell the sex of the baby. It will be neat to finally put a name to the kicking and a "he" or "she" instead of "it" or "baby". We've had our names picked out for years (I'm talking about 9 years or so) and it will be neat to finally know who we will be meeting in January!
