Week #25

Week 24 Doctor's Appointment
Quick and easy check-up this time. Minion's heart rate is 152, so that could mean a girl (above 140). Silly Baby and Baby Punkin were around 140.
I had to get ANOTHER blood test (not.a.fan) to monitor my thyroid. Whatever medical jargon I don't understand - but what I get from is my brain is sending signals of a hyperactive thyroid, but my thyroid glands are not listening. So in the end I'm fine but they just want to keep monitoring it which means more blood tests which is basically the worst thing ever for me.

In other news...
Heartburn is still here but still very manageable. Some days it doesn't even hit until I lay down at night, so taking Pepcid is just part of my getting ready for bed routine. If I get it throughout the day, I can usually chew some gum to make it go away or at least not as bad.
So right now I'd say the heartburn is easier in this pregnancy than the others, but I do still have a long way to go and I may just be remembering how terrible it was later on in the other pregnancies. So we'll see!
I don't really have any other ailments. No sciatica like I had with Eden. I get some leg cramps in my calves when I wake up in the morning, but nothing bad at all.
I'm getting the unsolicited comments around the workplace that I've "really popped!" But yet, there are some people who come up to me having just heard the news that I'm expecting. So I couldn't be that obvious if people are still just realizing I'm pregnant. Also depends on the shirt. On Thursday I was wearing a large shirt that I think made me look extra big and that's when I got the "you've really popped" comments. The very next day I wore a flowy shirt that wasn't as wide and almost appeared to conceal my bump - and on that day, I got comments that you could barely tell I was pregnant at all.
As this pregnancy goes on and I grow, I'm carrying higher than I was with Eden, and probably the same carriage as Addison. So, again, the gender guessing is all over the place! Although everyone keeps telling me they think I'm having a boy, but that's probably just what they think I'm hoping to have.
For the record - Tim & I think it's a girl :)