Oh, Yeah....Pregnancy

5 1/2 months (25 1/2 weeks)I had such big plans for chronicling my pregnancy...most of which have failed. :) Oh well. I can't even blame all of it on the past month and a half. It's just really hard to do those pinterest ideas when you have 2 other children. I'm not exactly the craftiest person alive either. That's what friends are for, right? Nonetheless, I am almost 6 months pregnant as of next Wednesday. People say, "Oh, you're getting a belly now!" Um...I should hope so at this point. Otherwise, we could have a problem. At my last dr visit 2 weeks ago where I took the glucose test for gestational diabetes, Dr Collins said, "Do people know you're pregnant yet? Because you're still so tiny." I think they tend to forget, but even so, I still have a close to full size baby in there, so...hold the door! Let me go first. Carry my bags. Let me sit down. :) Not that I'm demanding.

This baby is very active, particularly when I lay down. He's already falling right in line with the other two! God knows that the rule of thumb is to go hours without asking for a thing until Mommy decides to chill out. It's a born instinct clearly. I have no out of the ordinary cravings really. I eat to survive, basically, these days. Heartburn is starting to kick up a notch, and that's something I've always had with the others as well. I've always heard that means your baby will have hair, but I actually saw something on TLC where that is true. Something about a hormone...anyway, it's proved to be true with the other 2.

I did give natural labor a thought, not because I'm really into anything natural (see my appearance?), but because I didn't want to pay anymore money than I already am. But with Braxton Hicks having already begun, I can safely tell you that no price is too high for the good ole epidural. Travis already informed me that he wouldn't be in the room if I even attempted it. He'd be like the dads in the 50s or whatever that just waited to hear the good news. :) Let's see...even though you're not supposed to lay on your back after 4 months (because of the weight of uterus/baby pressing down on vital organs), I did it anyway for comfort. However, that isn't able to do be done anymore without feeling like I'm suffocating. Jaggar is STARTING to say that Sage's old room is the baby's room, but I'm still not sure he processes what that means. Because most of the time when I ask if we're having a baby, he says, "No, we have to get a doggy in my belly." OR, "We have to buy a baby." I think I'll just wait to show him in December.

I really enjoy pregnancy. I feel good. This is going to sound arrogant, I suppose, but honestly, I think I look great. I'm not that person that when complimented says, "Ugh...no way. I'm huge." because...it's not true. :) I love a pregnant belly, especially my own. In the hospital and the days and weeks after we came home, I wondered, "Why this? How am I going to do this?" It was already a challenge to be so close to Christmas, but then everything was turned upside down. BUT...in spite of all of that, I still trust that God had a divine time that goes above how I think and what I can see, so I trust that. When we first came home, I read a verse in my Bible that basically said, "God isn't worried." So if He isn't, I'm not either. And because of that, I enjoy pregnancy and have peace knowing it is well.

This really doesn't look that out of the ordinary to me, but maybe one day, it will. I read in my books (when I take the time to do it) that your belly button will be inside out now. That has never happened to me (grateful too, btw), but it's like not even CLOSE. Like my belly button ring isn't mildly tight or anything, which is odd, but I'll take it.