Tomorrow will be 26 weeks for me. Also having my first baby, a girl. I'm feeling really good. Finally starting to look & feel pregnant. Trying to keep active with walking and yoga. Most days I'd rather lay on the couch and eat junk food, but I keep in mind what's best for my baby and resist the urge to be a bum =)

Hello,

     I'm a stay at home pregnant mom to be and at first it wasn't so fun but I'm getting use to it. I'm also about 24 weeks and 4 days pregnant so my doctor tells me. I heard my baby's heart beat for the first time this past Tuesday and it was so magical. :) Lately, I have been feeling my baby move around a lot more than before. It's so exciting to finally feel my baby move around. It feels like bubbles or maybe it could be both baby moving around and farting. I get asked if I can feel my baby get the hiccups but I don't know what that would feel like or what it should feel like. I'm keeping the sex of my baby a surprise because I figured it would be fun to know when he or she decides to come into this world. It's getting close to deciding on a name but the father and I are undecided about a girls name. He has a boy name picked out but I want to keep searching for a name that we both can agree on. I like the sound of the boy name but I still feel unsure. Maybe when I see my baby the name will come and match he or she.

I had a period where I was starting to get tired again, like in the first trimester. I talked to my midwife about it and she said it may be that I needed more iron. You might want to look into that. She wanted me to take supplements, but I decided to look at my diet first. Iron supplements can cause constipation and there's enough of that with the pregnancy already!

Carrying this extra weight is exhausting. It's frustrating trying to get dressed and getting tired from it. I feel old. Luckily, I've been sleeping without trouble, just the occasional trip to the bathroom, but I fall right back to sleep. I'm enjoying it while I can.