Sorry for the delay! I feel like not much has been changing over 2 weeks so I went out an extra week and I am now 25 weeks pregnant! I'll update you guys on how I have been feeling between 22 weeks until now. At exactly 22 weeks my husband felt the baby kick for the first time!! Soooo exciting. It was so cool seeing how excited he was. I think it must be hard for guys because they don't get to experience any of the symptoms (both good and bad) so they don't get as much of that connection, so this was really exciting for him and made it seem so much more real! Now he feels him all the time. I have noticed some patterns in when I feel him move around: he goes crazy when I use my BabyPlus (see last post to see what I am talking about), after I eat, and whenever I am sitting or laying down still. When I am moving around and super busy I don't really feel him and I read that it can be because they are almost getting rocked to sleep by your movement. Makes sense if that's true! I also started about a week ago to see his kicks from the outside of my stomach. I hear people talk about their babies having hiccups...how do you know if your baby does? One of my apps told me to be on the lookout, but I have no idea what to look for haha. It took me long enough to even realize he was kicking :) I also had my 6 month appointment, which was super quick and easy. They did the normal pee in a cup, weight, blood pressure, asked if I had any questions, listened to the heart beat and measured my fundal height (it supposedly measures to see if baby is growing normally in size since they don't do ultrasounds). Everything went great, so I felt very thankful! Every appointment I seriously get so thankful to be at this point, it's unreal! I finally started to feel tired and have been lacking motivation for sure. The only thing that gives me energy is surprisingly working out, so I have been working out at night actually and it seems to give me the motivation after to do laundry and clean the kitchen, even pack my lunch sometimes (shocker for me haha). I started to feel like my belly is getting big finally too (I know this is just the beginning and haven't seen anything yet). I finally bought some maternity work pants after I ripped a hole in the butt of my regular ones haha! I looked everywhere and was so sad they had absolutely no maternity sections at all at so many stores! I ended up getting them at Motherhood Maternity and they feel like pajamas they were so worth it! Probably over the past 2 weeks I have gotten an EXTREMELY huge appetite and mostly for sweets! This is brand new as I had a major sweet tooth before I was pregnant, but since about 6 weeks I haven't craved chocolate or anything sweet (besides fruit). I also had a couple of decaf coffees from the coffee stand/Starbucks, which I wasn't craving before at all either, but I shortly regretted those after my face broke out terribly! Before I was pregnant I stopped drinking coffee because it was making my skin break out so bad and I don't know why I thought it would be different now, but it's been about 2 weeks and they are still there! We got our crib and dresser for the baby's room! So exciting! I now need to fully clean out everything in that room. I am lucky enough that my parents got the crib and dresser for us (so thankful for them!) and I couldn't be more happy at how pretty they are, I can't wait to share! We are pretty set on a name, but I think we will probably wait until he's here to finalize it...I don't know though maybe not because we don't have any backups (boy names are soooo hard!). I am sharing my favorite maternity jeans below, I have been wearing them nonstop! Get a size down from your regular size and I highly recommend the crossover panel compared to the stretchy sides. I have one pair with just the stretchy sides and I honestly can't stand them I can pull them on without unbuttoning the and I feel like I always have my underwear hanging out and I feel like I have a 24/7 muffin top (way too big in the waist and I got the smallest size). The over the belly panel just kind of holds everything in! Plus, I always preferred high-waisted pants prior to being pregnant.
