Baby Stewart

This baby girl is growing and I am absolutely in love with it. I've been trying to stay on track of taking pictures, but I really need to be better at it. 

They recently changed my due date from December 11 to December 20th so now I am all off on the dates, but I will make my best attempt to label these pics correctly...

~16 Weeks~

Around 16 weeks I was starting to feel a lot of cramping. I told my doctor about it and she said to drink more water, from then on I always had a water bottle on hand and the toilet near by :) I felt like my pants were feeling a little more snug and a little bump was starting to appear now. 

~17 weeks~

At around 17 weeks the super smells were starting to taper off and the nausea was getting a lot better. I also felt less hungry than I had been in that first trimester. During the first trimester I would wake up at 2 in the morning STARVING and SO thirsty. I was starting to feel better and slowly get some energy back. 

~18 weeks~

Yay for having more energy. When I would get nauseous before, strawberries and blue Gatorade were my go to's. Now things were getting better and I wasn't getting up in the middle of the night for my strawberries and Gatorade. 

~19 weeks~

It's a girl! We found out around this time that we are getting a little Princess for Christmas. Can't believe we're almost to the half way mark!Those little flutters turned into kicks around this time. 

~20 weeks~

The little kicks are getting harder and daddy is able to feel his baby girl now! I'm also not as thirsty and hungry as I was before. Yay for not hogging the toilet at work anymore!

~22 weeks~

After having a second ultrasound to confirm we are having a girl, I also found out she's transverse at this time. Which explains why all her kicks are on the left side. She is a little mover. I feel like when I have my cell phone on my belly and have music playing, that she starts to move more. I'm also trying to sing more since my mom reminds me all the time that she can hear me now. 

~24 weeks~ 

The belly is getting a little bigger now. It's getting harder to hide this bump. People at church are starting to find out that I'm preggo ( I need to be sociable at church) 

~27 weeks~

Baby girl has been growing and I love it. Even when I wear a baggy shirt you can see the little belly pop out. I'm falling more in love with this little baby and find myself dreaming about how life will be when she gets here. I hope that I can be patient when I am sleep deprived and exhausted. Now that she's growing more my pelvis is really hurting. My doctor says everything is stretching and getting looser. Work is getting harder and I'm not enjoying having to push big patients around. I do my best to do the bare minimum. I applied for part time and am excited to start working only twice a week. 

~27 weeks~

Another discomfort has been carpal tunnel in the mornings. My doctor says it's all the extra fluid in my joints. Good thing it goes away after moving my hands around in the morning. Some days I feel bigger than others. I guess it depends on what time of day it is and what I've been eating. It's weird having so much attention be on my belly since that's usually not that area I like to draw attention to. It still makes me jump when even Mike touches my belly. 

~27 weeks~

Also, I realized this week that my shoes are not fitting anymore. I thought swelling started towards the end of the pregnancy but I guess we are getting there already. Even my sandles are starting to leave a little imprint on my feet. Mike has been such a sport giving me back massages and massaging my feet every night. He's gonna be the best daddy!