23 Weeks

I'm still feeling good, but I do feel different this week. She has been moving around so much, which has been wonderful (and has led to many attempts, in vain, of catching her moving on camera). I think she's actually moved into a new position yesterday or today, because I'm feeling pressure and cramping in weird places. I'll leave it at that.

I've had a lot of tendon pain, too, and the beginnings of foot cramps. I think some of that is due to the fact that I didn't eat any bananas for several days. I won't make that mistake again. It only takes one or two nights of waking up unable to move because of searing pain in my side to make me think about what I can do to fix it. All I know is that when I was eating a banana a day, that didn't happen; when I laid off the bananas for a few days, it happened again. That's all I need to know!

I'm still hungry all the time, but I think I'm getting used to managing it. For a little while it seemed to blindside me every time I felt like I needed to eat, as though I had subconsciously thought, "I just ate, so I'll be good for a long while." Now, though, even if I've just eaten when I leave the house and only plan to be gone for an hour, I have snacks stashed everywhere, just in case. The strange thing about the hunger, though, is that it never seems to go through that slight feeling of "getting hungry." There seem to be three stages: 1)I've just eaten, 2)I am eating, or 3)I must eat immediately. I go from feeling full to fully experiencing that gnawing hunger that threatens to do me in.

Since the baby has been moving a lot, I think I'm starting to notice a pattern as to when she moves most frequently. After meals are always active times, of course. Late morning and during the evening are also good times for her, as those are the times I'm most consistently able to feel her moving around in there. She does not like my seat belt, I don't think, and she is either really fond of the laptop computer or really, really does not like it. Those two things seem to bring on miniature fits.

We have a doctor's appointment this Friday, so we're excited about that. It should be a really straightforward one - in and out - so there aren't really any nerves or jitters about this one.