I am 20 weeks pregnant...for anyone keeping track...that is officialy 5 months! Woot! Second trimester is treating me better and better, but we all know that will end soon enough! My cankles are less cankle-ish and almost resemble ankles! My pizza face...well, pregnancy has not been nice to my skin, and 2nd trimester hasn't made much of a dent in that aspect! My zombie like state is a thing of the past, I can survive a whole day with just one nap...usually! Naturally, there is still back pain and hip pain, but that is made up for with baby movement!
The girls kick daily, actually, between the two, almost nonstop! We had an interesting development about a week ago, Baby B "dropped" so to speak! Originally, the girls formed a kind of "L" shape in my belly. Baby A was "standing" upright on the left side of my uterus, while Baby B lay across my uterus near the top, so they were head to head so to speak. I had been feeling an aweful lot of movement and a few hours later, upon feeling my belly, I realized what had happened! Baby B gave up her position at the top of my uterus, for a vertex position side by side with her sister! The top of my belly went from soccer ball hard, to bread dough in a matter of hours! And talk about the kicking! I'm not sure if Baby A got mad to have to share the width, or if they were both so excited to be next to one another, but one reason or another, for 2 days straight, the kicking was constant...and HARD!
Tonight was measurement night, we took the appropriate pictures and dug out the tape. We closed the blinds to save my neighbors from potential blindness, exposed the blimp that used to be my stomach and wrapped it. I braced myself for another near 2 inches...maybe more...my pants were definately digging into my underbelly a lot more afterall! 44 inches! I lost 3 and one half inches! I blame Baby B dropping, she would have been pushing out my belly button more, since she laid just above it, and when she dropped, she filled in my underbelly with her size and deflated the top of my belly. Talk about unexpected though! Hopefully she stays where she is to aid in a, what I hope will be, a natural delivery. Although those chances are pretty slim!
On top of that excitement, we have officially named them! Although we havn't assigned names yet, the first baby out will be Aurora Jean, the Jean for my mother. Second baby to come to fruition will Delilah Beatrice, Beatrice for both Jeremy's mother and grandmother. I have been asked why the first baby gets the first name, simple: we chose Aurora long before we got pregnant, in fact, it's what I wanted to name Jaelyn! So, first baby gets the first name chosen, second baby out gets the second name we chose! Although, after discovering the name Delilah, I can't decide which name I like more! Ah well, such are the dilemas of my life!
Lastly, I would like to pay my respects to my idol, my role model, and a woman and mother I strive to be like, both on TV and in her personal life: Rest peacefully June Cleaver, you were amazing and an inspiration!
The girls kick daily, actually, between the two, almost nonstop! We had an interesting development about a week ago, Baby B "dropped" so to speak! Originally, the girls formed a kind of "L" shape in my belly. Baby A was "standing" upright on the left side of my uterus, while Baby B lay across my uterus near the top, so they were head to head so to speak. I had been feeling an aweful lot of movement and a few hours later, upon feeling my belly, I realized what had happened! Baby B gave up her position at the top of my uterus, for a vertex position side by side with her sister! The top of my belly went from soccer ball hard, to bread dough in a matter of hours! And talk about the kicking! I'm not sure if Baby A got mad to have to share the width, or if they were both so excited to be next to one another, but one reason or another, for 2 days straight, the kicking was constant...and HARD!
Tonight was measurement night, we took the appropriate pictures and dug out the tape. We closed the blinds to save my neighbors from potential blindness, exposed the blimp that used to be my stomach and wrapped it. I braced myself for another near 2 inches...maybe more...my pants were definately digging into my underbelly a lot more afterall! 44 inches! I lost 3 and one half inches! I blame Baby B dropping, she would have been pushing out my belly button more, since she laid just above it, and when she dropped, she filled in my underbelly with her size and deflated the top of my belly. Talk about unexpected though! Hopefully she stays where she is to aid in a, what I hope will be, a natural delivery. Although those chances are pretty slim!
On top of that excitement, we have officially named them! Although we havn't assigned names yet, the first baby out will be Aurora Jean, the Jean for my mother. Second baby to come to fruition will Delilah Beatrice, Beatrice for both Jeremy's mother and grandmother. I have been asked why the first baby gets the first name, simple: we chose Aurora long before we got pregnant, in fact, it's what I wanted to name Jaelyn! So, first baby gets the first name chosen, second baby out gets the second name we chose! Although, after discovering the name Delilah, I can't decide which name I like more! Ah well, such are the dilemas of my life!
Lastly, I would like to pay my respects to my idol, my role model, and a woman and mother I strive to be like, both on TV and in her personal life: Rest peacefully June Cleaver, you were amazing and an inspiration!
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