27 Week Update

27 Week Update

How far along? 27 weeks (The size of a .  About 16 inches and about 2.5 pounds.)

Total weight gain/loss: +15 lbs
 
Maternity clothes:Yep. Still living on that dream of regular pants mostly but the rubber bands are getting mighty tight and the belly bands are barely cutting it anymore.
 
Have you told family and friends?  Everybody knows now :)

Have you started to show yet? Yep. My stomach gets into a room approximately three seconds before the rest of me does. So, yes.

Sleep:  Eh.  As we have been told all along, she is a really active baby but she is definitely most active at night time and boy does she wake her mom up a lot!  Plus this week she found my rib cage and kicked me so hard in the back of my rib cage one night that I woke up thinking someone was stabbing me, it was that intense of a pain.  Add in very constant back pain any time I stay in one position longer than a few minutes and sleep is pretty much a thing of the past but I think I am adjusting well to it ;) 

Best moment this week: It's weird but I dreamed about her for the first time the other night.  Well, more correctly, I dreamed for the first time that I actually saw her.  I remember thinking different things about her features and this looked like so and so but, awake, I can't picture what I dreamed she looked like.  Any way, it was an amazing dream and I still smile everytime I think about it.

Miss Anything? Not constantly gaining weight.  I know, I know, I KNOW!  Doesn't mean you love it though and I don't!

Movement: I feel her everyday, almost all the time.  What I read said she should be sleeping 12-14 hours a day but she definitely isn't.  I'm not complaining (right now ;) I LOVE feeling her!  So if you see me sitting around you just smiling the biggest, goofiest smile, it's a good guess that she is kicking away. <---Still that :)

Food cravings: Food.  All the time and a lot of it. 

Anything making you queasy or sick? Overeating.  Once I get anywhere past hungry I need to stop because there isn't much space these days between 'I'm hungry' and 'I overate and feel sick'. <---- You guessed it, still that!

Gender prediction: GIRL.  According to the sonogram the Chinese Gender Calender and every single old wives tale was WRONG!  (Refer to my earlier posts!)

Labor Signs: Nope.

Symptoms: All of the pregnancy stereotypes that you always hear about hit at one time this week:  I cry all the time and can't stop, there isn't enough food in the world for me, especially sweets and my back hurts a lot.