Pregnancy: The halfway mark

How can time pass so quickly yet so slowly?

What feels like eons ago I wrote mt post Hello Baby on the day I discovered I was expecting baby number three, and now here I am at 22 weeks wondering where that time has gone.

I was only about 4 weeks pregnant when I found out, so this has felt like a really long pregnancy so far already. I had a small bleed at 9 weeks which resulted in an early scan and some reassurance, thankfully. Shortly after that was when I published my Hello Baby post, complete with a scan photo of what looked like a teddy bear.

I didn’t have a 12 week scan because I’d had one at 9+4 so to wait until 20 weeks seemed like too long for me. So in the interim we went for a private 4D scan at 16+1 and discovered that baby number three is BOY number three, too!

Louis and Rowan are thrilled that there will be another boy in the house and frankly so am I. I feel I’ve got a vague idea of how to raise boys and I think I’d be panicking now if we were having a girl. I’ve never been able to picture myself with a daughter, I think I was always destined to be a mum to boys only.

This was his little face at 16+1, although his ears weren’t quite in the right place! Thankfully everything is where it should be now.

Health-wise I’ve been very up and down. I didn’t suffer very much with nausea when I was expecting the other two, but this time I felt like I was hungover for the best part of three months – and trust me when I say that feeling that sick for that long really gets you down. Probably as a result of feeling so wretched all the time, coupled with those crazy pregnancy hormones, I found myself feeling pretty low in general. I barely blogged, I spent a lot of time in bed or at least in my pyjamas and I wasn’t much fun to be around. I did worry that I was on a bit of a slippery slope but between my husband, my sister and my friends (mostly Jane)I managed to get myself together enough to adopt a ‘screw you’ attitude towards the way I was feeling and drag myself out of that low. I’m so glad I did and I’m not sure I could’ve managed it without some of those people who probably didn’t even realise.

I suffered with PGP or SPD towards the end of my last pregnancy and when week 13 arrived this time I thought I was going to be in for a really rough ride because all the symptoms flared up at once. By way of some miracle or another though the pain subsided after a few days and has only just started to creep back into my legs if I overdo things in this past week or so. I’m sure it’ll be back towards the end of the pregnancy but I’m trying to be positive about the fact that I could’ve been suffering for almost 10 weeks now but I didn’t.

So that’s where we’re up to now. Belly is getting nice and round although I’m at that awkward stage where my normal jeans are too small but maternity ones fall down a bit – it’s such a glamorous time, right?!

I have bought one or two nice maternity pieces to wear but I’ll put all those in another post.

I’m linking this post up to Emma’s Maternity Matters linky where you can catch up with lots of other expectant and new mum bloggers – just click the badge and away you go!