Six month update

Well, 24 weeks have now passed with 16 weeks to go until our little one arrives. As you can see, my belly is growing and growing.  I have really popped out since Christmas and have a very round baby bump.  All the nurses and doctors at work finally feel comfortable asking if I am pregnant - there is no hiding it any longer.  It does feel a bit strange to have everyone in on my baby-growing journey but such is the way that things go on this public adventure.  

A few things have changed over the past month.  Thanks to the Snoogle, I have been sleeping much better these past few weeks.  My indigestion has turned into heartburn but occurs less frequently (I think that I am only averaging 2 Tums per day now).  The baby moves for about 15 minutes of every hour and seems to be on a fairly regular sleep schedule - here's hoping that that continues after s/he is born!  I haven't had any bad headaches in awhile and my energy level is decent.  I am starting to struggle with getting up (off the couch, out of a chair) and I am finding it more difficult to bend over.  Scott figures that there is only another few weeks left before he will have to help me put on my shoes and socks.  I had been doing more exercise but that has tapered off over the past two weeks (just because of laziness on my part).  I do experience mild cramping whenever I workout which is somewhat off-putting but completely normal.  I have also experienced more lower abdominal cramping as the baby grows and expands - I suspect that this is normal as well. As I mentioned in a previous post, I have a fair amount of rib pain which seems to come and go.  Again, the joys of the ever-expanding belly! Truthfully, I've had a bit of a hard time adjusting to this new, bigger shape and haven't found pregnancy to be all that enjoyable over the past few weeks.  I know that this is part of the process and is to be expected but sometimes being pregnant is harder than I imagined.