Finally up-to-date

I am finally caught up on everything so far in my pregnancy. Today I am officially 23 weeks and have gained a total of 11 pounds, but if you count the weight I lost and re-gained I am up 15 pounds. The exciting event of this week was that I finally saw my belly move from the little man kicking. It happened on Sat 10/25 while I was watching TV. I felt him kicking pretty hard and as I looked down I could see my belly move with each kick - it looks like he is dancing in there with the movement. I was so startled and excited the first time I actually laughed out loud and had to go wake Andrew and tell him. He was not quite as thrilled as I was, but mostly because it was 7:30 in the morning and he had gone to bed at 4am.

The little guy is kicking a lot stronger now-a-days and actually woke me up in the middle of the night last night with his kicking. I can't imagine how hard he will be kicking as I get into my 8th and 9th month; I imagine I will have bruises from him. Even though it still feels weird to have something moving inside you and kicking you at odd times of the day and night, I am so thankful that he is an active baby. It reminds me of how alive he is and I can't imagine something wrong with him as he is beating me up from the inside. Even though we have reassurances from the doctor that everything should be fine with him and that he most likely is a very healthy baby I still have thoughts that creep into the back of my mind about something being wrong. But every time he kicks those thoughts disappear - so I hope he keeps kicking and I am black and blue by the time he is born!

I really need to take another set of Belly pics and post them, but I keep forgetting to take them when I am at home. I have some days where I feel huge and pregnant and other days where I don't think I look pregnant at all. I am definitely larger than the last set of pictures at 15 weeks. So my goal tonight is to take belly pics and post them.

In the last week I have had a few odd symptoms. On Friday I had an unexpected relapse of Morning sickness and had to run out of a meeting to the rest room. I felt off for the rest of the morning but was fine after lunch. I'm hoping that it was a one time incident. I have also been pretty tired lately and not had the same amount of energy I have been used to in the last couple of weeks. And finally Monday morning I had a very scary dizziness spell that lasted about 5 minutes. I am not sure if all of the symptoms are related or if they are just random events. If anything else happens before my next doctor's appt I will have to call the nurse at the office and get a recommendation if I should move up my next appt. I hope nothing is wrong, but want to be careful just in case. So far today has been fine and I hope the rest of the week continues in the same direction.