Size:
Our corn cob is measuring almost 12 inches and weighs in a little over a pound!!! It's crazy to think that if the baby was born now it is possible that the little one could survive, however I'd prefer if he or she could stay in there for at least another 16 weeks.
Pregnancy Symptoms:
I am definitely starting to notice more symptoms as of late. I had blood work done a couple weeks ago and found out that my hemoglobin is low, which means that I'm anemic and need to supplement with iron. When the midwife called to tell me she mentioned that being anemic can cause extra exhaustion as well as difficulty breathing. I thought this was interesting considering just in the last couple weeks I've been super out of breath and tired. I thought my blood pressure was high, but at our appointment we found out that my blood pressure was actually in the healthy low end, 110/70. I'm actually really relieved that it was my iron and not my blood pressure as having low iron is not near as much of a concern as high blood pressure.
Movement has also been pretty steady, I find the little one is most active while I'm working. Or late in the evening. I actually saw the baby move from the outside the other day, that was very exciting! Ben has yet to feel or see any movement but any day now I'm sure he will.
We had a midwife appointment this week and it looks like my uterus is measuring 2 weeks big. I was assured that this doesn't mean that we're going to have a big baby or go into labour early, I'm thinking maybe the baby just had a little growth spurt, let's hope so!
Life Happenings:
Well, even though pregnancy has not been overly exciting as of late, I have had some non-pregnancy related ailments. So at about 21 weeks, I was up all night with a toothache. I called my uncle as soon as I knew he would be up the following morning (he's a dentist in medicine hat). As soon as I described my symptoms he immediately knew that I needed a root canal ASAP. He was able to squeeze me in the following Monday so, 5:30 Monday morning Ben and I headed out to medicine hat for the dreaded root canal. As it turns out, I was an abnormal case and he was unable to complete the procedure. The last couple weeks have been quite painful as I've been waiting to see a specialist. Luckily, today is the day and in 2 hours I will be getting this tooth fixed for good! (hopefully)
We have also made our first baby purchase! We have a stroller/carseat combo and a bassinet. I felt like it was way to early to start getting stuff but I guess the more we spread out the purchases the less it will be all at once.
We have also gotten a new vehicle. We were in the market because our other two were not reliable for a baby. The car actually ended being the same one that we had a year ago, we just got it back, so it all worked out really well.
Weekly Highlight:
I can honestly say that the highlight of my week, and what I've been looking forward to has been having today off of work to go get my tooth fixed! Isn't that ridiculous! I am a little annoyed that it's going to cost somewhere around $1500, but I just can't wait to be done with this dumb pain.
24 Week Bump
Rose got put in the stroller box, she didn't like it much
I'm so curious to see what this baby will look like. I'm the one on the left and Ben is the chubby one on the right, I hope the baby takes after him...hehe
