I'm six months pregnant!! YAY! I love it. She moves a lot and it's much more noticable than before. She moves in response to sounds and movements now, too, which I think is too cool. Steven layed his head on my tummy Tuesday night and talked to her and almost immediately she started kicking his face, lol. She and I also listen to Mozart around 10 every night (we try to in the mornings, but they're more chaoitic with work and whatnot). She moves to all the songs, but I've noticed that there are certain songs that she moves nonstop to. She hasn't even taken her first breath and she's already my little ballerina (takes after her mommy!).
Now, depending on which parent she's going to take after, she's about a foot long. If she takes after me then she's about a foot and a half, if she takes after Steven she's probably about 6 inches... hee hee. Her little brain is growing really fast right now (that's why we listen to Mozart) and she can probably use her taste buds by now... which probably explains why certain foods are baby movers, lol. Her lungs are developing branches of the respiratory tree and cells that produce surfactant, a substance that helps the air sacs inflate easily once she's born. This developmental landmark in particular makes me happy because if, god forbid, she's premature, her lungs are getting near their full development so she has more of a chance of surviving.
Life is really awesome right now. I've had an amazingly easy pregnancy so far and I've had a lot of fun with everything. Logan and I listened to her heart beat a few days ago. It took a while for him to sit still long enough to hear it, but once he did he was so excited. He asks me about her all the time. "Is my sister awake?", "did she eat your food?", "what's she doing right now?". He made me lunch on Monday and when I went to find him to tell him thanks his first question was if my baby ate my food. He's really excited. He invited me and Annberlynne to watch him play baseball for the Royals. I promised him we'd be there. I'm really glad that he's so excited. I'll have to post the story about telling him later, it's cute.
Steven and I are trying to get through all the obstacles right now, the money, the apartments, insurance, school, work... the list feels eternal. Apartments seem to be our biggest challange right now. But it's turned out really nice because as we work through these problems one by one through the week, the weekends are great. He'll listen to Mozart with us and we've listened to her heart beat together a few times. Even though we still have to talk about these things and our options during the weekends, our weekends are a lot of fun and pretty laid back. If there ever was a superman, it's Steven. Still the same ol' Steven, but somehow more. He's really helped me have an easy pregnancy. And especially now that everyone knows (parents, Logan, siblings, etc.) it's that much easier to enjoy... the burden of the secret is gone. Now we all can share the joy of having our wonderful tiny dancer in approx. 3 months time!!!
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