Growing. . .Growing. . .Growing. . .24 weeks

We had a little hiccup in our blog this week. My computer hasn’t been working all that great so I used Johnathon’s Macbook to do last week’s update. Well somehow by using his Mac, the Mac html language didn’t work together with the blog site. So if you were using Internet Explorer you couldn’t see my blog. I was scared I had lost all my hard work, but it is back up and running thanks to my dad figuring out the problem. Lesson learned. . . .backup important data that is on the computer! I apologize for anyone who missed last week’s update. You are able to view it now.

Baby girl and I had our 24th week appointment on Monday. We are measuring where we need to be. My uterus is 24 cm in length, which is spot on to being 24 weeks pregnant. Baby girl’s heart beat is still strong and she is moving around like crazy, she is a wiggle worm. She is moving more and more each day. She has me jumping out of my seat sometimes with her strong kicks. This morning I was cuddling with Brutus on the couch. Brutus was lying right next to my belly, and baby girl started kicking Brutus hard. . . .but I was the one feeling her strong kicks not him. . . it didn’t feel so good. I feel like my belly has doubled in size in the last two weeks. Carrying an extra 18 lbs in the mid section is hard on my body. I think the hardest part of being pregnant right now is how much my body is changing and growing. I’m already so uncomfortable and miserable. I still have 16 more weeks to go. Ugh! I did get a note from my doctor to limit my work shifts to 8 hours instead of the current 12 hour work shifts I have been working. I’ve found it to be harder and harder to give quality care to my patients after being on my feet for more than 8 hours a day. So to protect myself, baby girl and my patients I’m going to reduce my hours worked. Hopefully that will help my discomfort.
 

John has started his 2013 rugby season. He was unsure at first whether or not he was going to play this year, but has decided that this will be his last year playing fulltime rugby. His first game is this Saturday against the Diablo Gaels. I’m looking forward to going since I finally have a weekend off. I’m going to take our little Brutus and socialize him.

I’m so happy my blog is up and running again! Sigh of relief. . . . . I’ll leave this week with a picture of a cute hand-me-down onsie I got from a friend. It put a big smile on Johnathon’s face.