Week 25

I am in my 25th week and my belly is in full bloom. Everything is still going well which of course means there really isn’t much to report. Eric and I went for our monthly checkup on Monday and everything is right on schedule. The heartbeat moved from the 155 bpm to 140 something bpm in the month which I thought was a big move but the midwife said that because the baby has grown so much in the last month it is normal for the heartbeat to slow down. I think Eric was secretly very pleased because of the old wives tale that states the slower the heartbeat the more likely it is to be a boy. We mentioned that to the midwife and she said that it really is 50/50 right now whether it’s a boy or a girl, but if it were the last month the odds would probably be 60/40 a boy. However, she did mention that she has delivered plenty of girls with lower heartbeats and plenty of boys with fast ones. So, everything is still up in the air.

My belly has definitely popped (at least to me) in the last week. I’m still not big and it still doesn’t look like a nice round pregnant belly, but it is there and it is not going away. I’ve tried to suck my stomach in just to see what would happen. Nothing moves. It is solid and it just sits there. I think that’s kind of cool. I have no control on what my belly does. It is its own entity now, which this far along in the pregnancy makes complete sense. Eric and I were watching my belly move the other day. I love it when it jerks when the baby kicks. It’s pretty cool to watch.

I have to say that I am very excited to have my sister Janice back in town for a long weekend. I haven’t seen her in almost a year and I really wanted her to see me while I’m pregnant. She felt the baby kick yesterday so that was a lot of fun for us. It’s nice that she gets to enjoy some Aunt time with her niece/nephew, even if it’s still belly bound.

Also, Eric and I just booked a trip to Hawaii for the end of the month! I am so excited. We are heading to Oahu and Maui for 7 days. It will be nice to have a little getaway before the baby is born. As much as I would like to believe that we will still be able to travel when the baby is born, the truth is we will probably be house bound for a little while. So it should be very nice to have this last hurrah. I’ll be 7 months pregnant in Hawaii. I’m going to look killer in a bikini!