27 Weeks

Dear Baby Wyatt,

You and I are at 27 Weeks today, with 13 more to go! We are in our last week of our 2nd trimester, with our 3rd and last trimester starting next Monday.

You are still in eggplant phase, measuring 13.6 - 14.8 inches and weighing in at 1.5 - 2.5 pounds (no wonder I feel you rolling around in there!). You are still working your lungs by breathing in and out amniotic fluid. You are also showing brain activity (at least one of us is this week!) and your brain will keep getting more and more complex. Your testes have completely descended by now (you go, baby!).

In mommy news, I am feeling you hiccup and punch and kick pretty regularly now. You are waking up around 3 AM every morning (thanks baby, go back to sleep!), then I feel you again after breakfast (usually during my first case of the day), then periodically throughout the day when I have a chance to sit still (which isn't often), then again after dinner, and then right before bed.

I am having some leg cramps here and there, still have the achy back, but I haven't experienced any swelling yet. Don't worry, I don't feel like I am missing out! I already feel like a hippopotamus at times. Sometimes people catch me at work and exclaim, "Wow girl! When are you due?!" or "Look at that waddle/belly/bump - where did that come from?!"

I'm still not used to how big my belly has gotten yet - and it seems like it has just exploded over night. I have to watch myself closely at work as to not bump the sterile field with it - I have bumped into my scrub tech a couple of times (sorry Stephanie!). I'm hoping that it will plateau for a while - we will see I suppose!

This past weekend was Christmas weekend and on Christmas Eve your mommy got all dolled up and AJ and I went to my grandma's and then to AJ's Nan-Nan's. Everywhere we went you made out like a bandit - books to start your collection that I am so excited about (all your momma's baby books were sold at a garage sale and they were Little Golden Books, so I am wanting to restore a collection for you to have so that I can read to you and maybe you'll become a bookworm like your mommy *fingers crossed*), and clothes - even a homemade outfit and matching blanket from AJ's Nan-Nan!

27 Weeks - Xmas Eve

Mommy & Wyatt - 27 Weeks, Xmas Eve 

Big Ol' Belly - Xmas Eve 2011

Smuggling a Basketball - Xmas Eve 2011

Mommy was feeling pretty hormonal/pitiful/Grinchy this past Christmas Eve and didn't feel up to all the traveling around and hoo-hah of Christmas. Poor AJ. I bet he cannot wait until I am not pregnant and crazy hormonal at times! It doesn't happen a lot, but when I get into one of those moods I can't even pull myself out of it. You start feeling like everyone is against you, that you are fat and ugly, that you are going to be a horrible parent, that you are broke, in a dead end job, have no friends...blah blah blah it goes on and on this Pity Party. And you KNOW you are being silly and childish and what you are feeling isn't true at all - but the crazy thing is you cannot stop! Sometimes I just burst into tears for no reason at all - it is seriously crazy sometimes. No wonder people are scared of pregnant women! I laid on the couch and watched Home Alone 2: Lost in New York while Dad and AJ tried cheering me up. I finally did start to feeling better, but I had already been a PITA most of the night. :/

I got my first full night of sleep in MONTHS the night of Christmas Eve (my bad attitude must have worn me out!) and woke up feeling EXCELLENT. We had Christmas with AJ's mom's side where we ate amazing food and played BINGO per family tradition. Then we went to my dad's and had Christmas with his side. We had to come home early because I had to work today (suck!). Luckily I got off a little early, picked up a Mocha Frappe from McDonald's, and have been going to town on this blog.

I think I am ready to relax on the couch though.

Love you,