I'm so tired. Oh, so tired.
Hi guys, and welcome back to my pregnancy update. This is going to my 26th week of pregnancy,
all the symptoms that I've experienced, any new products I'm using, my bump, all of that
kind of stuff. In all, I think, to be honest, it's been a bit of a bad week. Don't click
away. It's not going to be a depressing blog, but I've just really started to experience
heartburn, leg cramps. I'm really getting out of breath as well now, and I just feel
like my bump is really growing and I'm running out of space and I'm getting all of these
symptoms because of that. Still got 14 weeks to go, so this should be fun.
The baby should be about 15" long now, from crown to rump, so getting really big. He should
also be opening his eyes now and be able to detect light. I'm assuming it's pretty boring
in there of what's going on but he is opening and using his eyes, which is really cool.
The best thing that's happened this week that is just amazing is my husband put his head
to my tummy this week, and he could hear the baby's heartbeat. I was like, "I don't know
if that's even possible for you to actually hear his heartbeat," but I looked it up online,
and it is. It's from like from 25 to 26 weeks you should be able to hear the heartbeat from
the outside, so that's really, really cool. I think it was really nice for my husband
to make it so real, because obviously we're so busy. We've got two boys. I'm the one who's
pregnant, although I'm starting to show, it's just not that real for him until the baby's
actually here. So I think that was a real like, "Oh my gosh." He's felt him kick and
stuff, but he actually heard his heartbeat, so that was really cool.
I'm two-thirds of the way through this pregnancy now. My biggest symptom this week has been
experiencing heartburn, especially when I eat spicy food or rich, fatty foods and stuff
like that. I had this in past pregnancies, but I completely forgot. It's worst when I
eat and then I go to bed and when I lay down, I've just been feeling like fire in my throat
and I just feel like I wish I could be sick, because if I could just be sick right now,
I think I would feel a lot better.
So the other night we had spicy chili and then I probably ate a bit too much, and then
when I went to bed, I was just all night, I was just fire there. It was so uncomfortable.
I am having some Gaviscon now, only at night if I feel like I've got heartburn, but after
I have a meal, already, that I can feel that all creeping up. Basically, it's because your
intestines inside are being pushed up anyways. An increase in hormones, an increase in progesterone
particularly, is making the valve on the top of my stomach loose, so it kind of opens up
because it's obviously relaxing my whole body, ready to get this baby out and stuff.
So I'm basically experiencing acid reflux, so acid from my stomach is literally coming
up. That has been the worst and really uncomfortable. But I am having Gaviscon, and that is helping.
If it gets any worse, I'm going to go an see the doctor, because I still have 14 weeks
left. I still have quite a long time.
For the first time this week, I've really had some bad leg cramps. So when I wake up
in the morning and I naturally stretch, it's like ow. It hurts so much, particularly in
my calves and thighs and stuff. Leg cramps, again, can be because of the increase in hormones
like progesterone again, but they can also be from the extra weight that I'm carrying
around and stuff like that.
I looked up online what I can do to help it and one of the things was to have a hot bath.
I was like, "Great." Because of the building work, we do not have a bath at the moment.
And the second thing was to have lots of room when you're asleep. Again, there's three of
us in our double bed and there's really not much room at all, so I was just like, "Brilliant.
That's really going to help." Really painful, so I'm trying to decide when I wake up, like
remember not to stretch and also just do some little foot exercises in the morning. I kind
of like do that and roll my feet around and just try to get things moving in my legs.
Leg cramps are really common in mid- to late-pregnancy, so I did have it in the past as well, and
they get really bad towards the end for me. It's just one of those things. Whenever I
have a bad symptom, I'm like, "Just remember, this is the last time you're going to do it
and you're going to have a beautiful baby at the end of it. This is like ... You can
do this."
Yeah. I'm still taking my Pregnacare supplements as usual, and my iron Spatone liquid supplements.
There have been a few days when I've completely lapsed on them and forgotten to take them.
I don't know why I don't, because the baby's pretty cooked now. I'm like, "I forgot," or
whatever, but I need to be vigilant about taking them.
Really showing now. I'll show you my bump in a second. Even my two-and-a-half-year-old
son is like, "Mommy, you've got baby in her tummy," particularly if I wear a tight dress
or a tight outfit. He notices it and he's like, "Mommy's got baby." And it's like, "Yes,
I have got a baby." And Frase is asking loads of questions. He's really interested. He actually
came home from school the other day and asked me, how, when the baby is the size of a watermelon,
because on my pregnancy app, the last fruit is a watermelon, he asked me how was I going
to get the watermelon out of my butt. I was really taken back. I was like, "What? Is that
where you think it's coming out of?" How was like, "Yeah, someone at school told me that
the baby is coming out of your butt." I was like, "He's only five." So there's this conversation
of well, ladies kind of have a different place that it comes out of, and I was just like,
"You're too young to be having this conversation." That was funny, though.
But yeah, he's been asking loads of questions and he's been so attentive and so sweet. We
got in the car the other day and I was talking about how important it is to wear a seatbelt,
and he was like, "It's really important for you to wear a seat belt, Mommy, because you've
got a baby in your tummy." He already knows how precious this baby is, which I think for
a five-year-old, is quite amazing.
Oh look, I'm welling up already. Because I'm pregnant, I have been really, really emotional
still. I've been really emotional this whole pregnancy. I wonder if this baby's going to
be a real softie or something. Yeah, ridiculous things that I shouldn't even be crying about,
I am crying about. The other day, I came up to traffic and I cried because I had to be
somewhere and I was sat in traffic and I was just like, oh, needed the loo and I was just
like ... In your head, you're like, "You are being fricking ridiculous." But you can't
stop. You're so hormonal and you're so emotional.
As I mentioned, I'm really struggling with sleep. I think it's like the sleeping arrangements
that we have in our house at the moment with the heartburn and the leg cramps and I'm really
hot sometimes. I'm having sweats at night. So yeah, I feel like the lack of sleep is
affecting everything in my life. At work, I feel like I've got more baby brain and I
feel like I'm not focusing as much and I feel like I'm doing everything but maybe everything
a little bit badly, because I'm just a bit fuzzy some days.
Oh yeah. Yeah. One more thing I wanted to say is about my belly button. It has never
popped before, but I feel like it might actually pop out this time. There's probably like no
room left, where it's my third pregnancy. But yeah, this is 26 weeks from the front,
and 26 weeks from the side. So yeah, definitely getting really big. These have also got really
big. It's just not good. This has also got really big, even though there's not a baby
in there. Anyway, yeah. So that is it really.
Anyway, I think that's everything that I wanted to tell you. I hope you like this pregnancy
update. Please put any questions or comments below, and I will definitely answer them in
my 27th week update. I also did a big online order for maternity clothes yesterday, so
they are all going to feature in my next week's update, because I just feel like I needed
to buy some new clothes to feel a little bit better about my body and stuff. But yeah,
anyway, I'm waffling and I'll see you soon. Bye.
One new craving this week, and that has been Bounties.