Last third...

Now being over 25 weeks, it means I am now about to enter the third trimester!
I am feeling pretty good & heaps of people tell me I am glowing -- whatever that means & not that I can see it myself!!
Tiredness is really my best friend at the moment, along with not sleeping all that well -- I seem to wake myself up every time I have to turn my wine-barrel body over!  I feel as though I have swallowed a gold-fish bowl & there is a small little "Dora the Explorer" roaming around in there!
I am definitely getting bigger & bigger (it seems each day!) and it is starting to get uncomfortable -- such as getting up out of the chair, or thinking I will just run & grab something.  Yeah funny joke! O well I guess I have bigger to go & am just having to learn to slow down a little.

She is very active & kicks A LOT!  I am wondering if she will be like me & walking at 8-9 months!! Jon went to listen to her heartbeat the other day (with a toilet roll inner to his ear) and got a good boot for his efforts -- he said it was rather loud!  

The babies room & things to be bought have kinda started, but not to much extent.  I think I will really kick into this once I finish school & my days off start in earnest.  Rather looking forward to that :-)

Last third...

20 weeks

Well time seems to be both flying by & also dragging!
I am now over half-way through our pregnancy now and I have a little tummy to show for it, which seems to get bigger each day!  I am also starting to really feel the tiredness kick in.  I am aiming to finish work at the end of this term -- looking forward to that! :-)
In the holidays we went for our 20 week scan.  We were hoping for some 3D images and a video but were disappointed & also not that impressed with the staff at the Radiology centre.  O well, we still got to see our little one & were again blown away by the amazing ness of the technology to see & even more than that the little creation that God has allowed to grow within me.
WARNING SPOILER ALERT!
We found out we were having a little girl, which came as a bit of a surprise!  They measured everything and pointed out the different parts -- I think for me the feet were the cutest, measuring just 3cm & so perfectly formed.  But it was also interesting to see the blood pumping through the 4 heart chambers and all the other parts.  The head measured quite small for her age, but we were assured that it was probably just because of the position she was in.
Here are a few photos -- see if you can figure out what is what!!

20 weeks

Progress

After saying that I wasn't feeling sick -- week 11-15 decided to give me a run for my money & although I never actually spewed, I did spend a lot of my time feeling rather sick.  We went away for Queen's birthday (long weekend) and wished we had stayed at home!
Along with that I have had quite bad headaches/migraines quite consistently almost every week that last a day or two.
The progress to report though is that has only been for a short time & I am now feeling mostly back to normal.  I still have strange food likes & dis-likes -- Jon is rather sick of having potatoes most nights for dinner!
My jeans no longer fit me & I have started feeling very little movements.
I decided to at long last take a pregnancy test & although this was a little bit late -- at least I was going to be insured of a positive result...

The other night Jon got to feel the baby kicking & then a few nights later as he felt it kick, he pushed back & the baby kicked back as though they were communicating with each other!  Rather surreal! :-)

Progress