And…. we have kicks! I’ve been feeling flutters for the longest time but this weekend was the first time I felt actual kicks! We were just sitting there watching football after dinner and I felt a little nudge under my belly…and another…and another! Luckily Laryen got in there just in time to feel one too. His face lighting up was something I’ll never forget! I didn’t know when we’d actually feel kicks because we learned during the last ultrasound that the placenta is in the front of the uterus so that little baby needs to kick through a lot of organs for me to feel it — maybe that means it’ll be a professional soccer player or an Olympian! Or it just likes what I ate for dinner. Either way, we sure do love this milestone!

 

Halfway. Can’t believe we are halfway in our pregnancy! It is so surreal I can’t even begin to explain it!

Everything has been going good! Feeling a lot less nauseous and have way more energy that I did during the 1st trimester. Still a lot of days that I could sleep all day (I LOVEEEEE sleeping) and I feel a little nauseous every once in a while, but for the most part I feel great.

We’ve started our childbirth classes and I’ve learned way more about mucus plugs, water breaking, and babies crowning than I’ll ever want to know about! But I like to learn so I feel more prepared when the big day comes down the road — but I’m pretty sure everything will go out the window when I actually start to feel the contractions. I still think in the back of my mind the whole labor part is so far away and I don’t need to think about it…but oh yeah, we’re HALFWAY so I guess that whole baby coming out of me thing is going to happen whether I like it or not.

The best part about being 20 weeks —

we got another ultrasound and got new pics of the babe! It’s crazy to see how much more it looks like a teeny tiny human now than it did at 12 weeks (and to think how much we thought it looked like a baby back then!) Everything looked good. We need to go back in a month because baby wasn’t cooperating for some of the measurements, but hey it’s another look at our little embryo that could and I’m a-ok with that!