According to the Baby Center, Aiden is about the size of a large eggplant, weighing in at ~2.5 pounds and is probably close to 15 inches in length from head to toe.
Somehow, that doesn't look very large, but the stats certainly make him sound large. He's got all the essentials at this point, and it's basically weeks of building up layers of muscle and fat for the next three months. Oh joy, more weight to carry around! :P
I've loved my second trimester. I had it luckier than most women, I think. I felt mostly normal, and my energy levels for being active have been great. I managed to go on a couple of trips both near and far - London, Paris, Seattle, Santa Cruz, Monterey, Berlin, Munich, Salzburg, Vienna, and Chicago - without any major issues. Little Aiden is one well-travelled baby already! I bet he's going to get my travel lust gene.
The one thing that's come up is swollen feet. Longer flights made my feet swell up like boiled sausages, ready to bust open their skins. The most swollen they got was probably from my return trip to the States from Vienna. The night before the long flight home, we had decided to get standing room only tickets to the Viennese Opera, and lucky us, we got them and stood up for all of the 3.5 hour opera. Then there was the 14 hours of flight time home the very next day... Yeah, not so great for my feet. I basically spent the following week trying to elevate and ice my feet when I could, and that seemed to help. In my head, it was still worth it! We got to see the opera for 4 Euros as opposed to 250 Euros! Yes, Aiden, your mom is a sucker for deals. :)
I'm getting heavier and heavier. :( At this point, I am currently 34 pounds heavier than pre-pregnancy. I wish I could blame it all on Aiden, but he's only 2.5 pounds.
I've loved feeling Aiden move inside me. His movements are getting stronger and stronger. I remember at 18 weeks, I was so impatient to feel something, anything, to indicate that there was a baby in there. It wasn't until week 20 that I felt something definitive and S. could verify with me that he felt Aiden move as well. It was so alien! Nowadays, he's just poking around at all hours of the day. I love that reassurance that he's alive and well inside me. My mom also got very excited to feel his movements; we were in Chicago together for the weekend, and she was as bad as S. in terms of how often she'd just reach over to feel him kick against her hand. :) He is going to be a loved baby, that's for sure!
Alright, hopefully things continue to progress smoothly. Days are just flying by! I've got two months left to go before my maternity leave starts. Can't wait!
No comments:
Post a Comment