22 Weeks pregnant:

Things are still great and I must say I’m getting more and more excited about this baby!  I’m really itching to get the baby room ready, but I know it’s still early yet!  But I guess we will soon be looking for furniture!

I’ve put the curtains up, but we really need to paint the room, because the curtains are green and the walls are pink!  I cannot with a good conscience let our little boy sleep in a pink room!

I’ve unpacked all the stuff my sister gave me and there are a lot of gorgeous pink things in there that have barely been used (she has 2 girls), so they have been packed back into a box and maybe we will get to use it for baby #2, who knows!  The rest of the stuff was washed and I’ve also gone through all the things we have received as presents already, and the stuff I have bought as well.  I’ll wash those closer to our little boy’s birth, I think…

On the symptom front:  I’ve been getting cramps in my calves for the past few weeks already, but they are getting worse now!  I woke up twice this past week in the middle of the night in agony, and I’m already taking Ultimag for cramps…  Anybody know what else might work?  I know my sister said she also had this same problem during her pregnancies.

The heartburn is also getting worse, I’m not getting it more often, but the intensity is at least 10 times worse!  I’ve never had it so bad, but I’m still reluctant to take medication, so I’m taking a couple of sips of milk when I need it and that still helps.  I actually think I don’t have it bad – I can live with these symptoms, so please don’t think I’m complaining – I’m not!

Otherwise our little boy is still quite active – I feel him a lot now and it is so amazing and also very comforting, I must say!  DH also feels him often and he loves it so much!  He is so involved with my pregnancy, and he was actually quite shocked to hear that some men we know never felt their babies kick!

But my MIL told me last night that DH has always loved babies, even when he was a young boy, and at the stage where most of them don’t want anything to do with babies anymore, he would still go up to new moms with prams and have a look at their babies.  He was also so super chuffed when his sister was born when he was 5 years old already, where his older brother was upset and wanted to run away from home…

I just know our baby is loved so much already, by both of us, and I cannot imagine how much we will love him when he is here!  DH is also so protective of our little boy; he doesn’t even like it if I pat my belly, because he worries that it might wake our little one or that it might sound horrible to him!  I’m not allowed to do anything that might put me or our pregnancy at risk, like pick up heavy things and he even worries that I might slip and fall getting into or out of the bath!  I just love it, because I know he wants this baby so much, and that makes me incredibly happy!

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