So raise your hand if you are surprised that the weekly bump updates didn’t last. Let me be the first to not raise my hand. It has a lot to do with the fact that trying to make time to take the photos while it was still light outside was stressing me out, let alone finding the time to blog. Come back soon, summer. Monthly updates seem like a much more realistic goal at this point!
That picture above? It does not even do the flatness of my belly button area justice. It’s so weird! My belly is super round above and below my belly button but right there it’s completely flat! It’s also W-I-D-E. My belly button is like a crater – my cheerleaders love to point out how big it is, lol!
Five Months | 20-24 Week Update
How far along: I’m actually 23 weeks while writing this 
Size of Baby: A grapefruit
Gender: A precious little BOY! We can not wait to meet you, Camden Lewis Sansing!
Movement: He moves ALL the time! I have figured out a few of his patterns at this point including: almost every night after I eat dinner, when we start the praise and worship portion of church, when he hears all of my cheerleaders yelling at practice, and several times I swear he has recognized Nathan’s voice a few times when he has come home from work and started moving! It’s so incredible.
Weight Gain: Up 10ish pounds at this point I think. I think five pounds of that is in my chin. Eye roll.
Sleep: Better now that I have been going to the chiropractor regularly but it takes a lot of pillows to keep me comfortable! I do wake up a few times every night but most of the time I can go right back to sleep after using the bathroom or changing the side of my body I’m sleeping on. Sometimes I can’t go back to sleep for an hour or more and I’m up for a while, but it’s rare. We’re at the point where I can absolutely not sleep in even my most baggy t-shirts, only Nathan’s give me the room I need not to feel like I’m suffocating.
Workouts: Nathan and I have been going to the gym most mornings and I have been trying to stretch more lately. Feeling good during them!
Maternity Clothes: I can still fit into a few pre-maternity sweaters and looser tops, but I’m most in maternity stuff now and let me just say – it’s so much more comfortable once you embrace it, ladies. Planning to do a whole post on my favorite maternity pieces so far very soon!
Symptoms: Just hungry. All. The. Time. Starving. Especially on days that we workout in the mornings.
Cravings/Aversions: No aversions at all really any more but craving sugar like never before.
Missing Most: My boot camp workouts – mostly jumping! I just don’t trust myself and my balance to jump at this point. Also missing the occasional refreshing Red’s Apple Ale or Angry Orchard. Sometimes it just sounds so delicious!
Nursery: See our plans on this post! I’m still working on getting his room cleared out of junk but have made a few purchases!
Nathan: I will never forget the look on his face when they told us we were having a son!!
Best Part of the Week: Getting Camden’s first Baby Gap haul in the mail! So many tiny adorable things!
Other Stuff I Want to Remember: A few things happened this month I want to remember…
1. My hair is never oily any more (I’ve been a must wash once a day girl for my entire life). I can seriously go three days between washes and I really could go even longer than that but I feel like it has got to be smelly by that point.
2. We had a scare this month that sent us to the ER to make sure I wasn’t having contractions. I started having significant pain on the right side of my abdomen around 10 AM one day and it got increasingly better, then worse for several hours in few minute increments. There were some other things going on as well that made us (my doctor and I) all worry about pre-term labor. I watch waaaay too much Grey’s Anatomy so of course my mind went right to my baby in the NICU for the next several months so of course I had a full on meltdown. I’m talking, thank goodness God gave me such a level-headed husband who can talk me down or they probably would have had to sedate me. When Nathan and I got to the hospital, they hooked me up to machines to monitor Camden’s heartbeat and another to determine if I was having contractions. Thankfully, I wasn’t and the baby was totally fine so after a few other tests and a chat with the ER doctor they sent us home. They couldn’t really say what was causing the pain (maybe my gallbladder or just a strained muscle) and told me to come back if I got a fever or suddenly felt much worse. Of course I felt like a nutcase when it was over but was very relieved to know I was not in pre-term labor.
3. Let’s end on a funny melt-down story shall we? As I say in this post I have been living for my chiropractor appointments and had been having some pain all week before my Friday appointment but kept telling myself to hold out until then. Nathan was kind enough to tell me there was a bad wreck on the highway near our house while he was on his way to work so I left my house almost 40 minutes early to make it the 15 mins it usually took me to get there. As soon as I turned out of our neighborhood I knew I wasn’t going to make it. Traffic both ways was at a complete standstill and I couldn’t see the beginning or the end. Anyways, I had a full on melt-down, called my chiropractor’s office sobbing telling them I wouldn’t be able to make it, then took the sobbing to new levels when they told me it would be a week before she could fit me in (I swear I was in a lot of pain). It was so embarrassing but hey, they ended up being able to get me in that day sooo…
And just for kicks and giggles…
…I really thought I had a nice, noticable bump in that last picture. HA. hahahahahahaha.
Please tell me someone out there has an embarrassing break down story they can tell me to make me feel better?
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