26 weeks

Late again! Yay! I think this may start to actually just be a new trend ;) As the weather gets nicer we're using our weekends to the fullest. Savoring these last few months together before we welcome this little love. 26 weeks! At the end of this next week, I'll be entering the THIRD trimester! Ah! How crazy is that?! This pregnancy is flying by and I am loving it. 

I had a midwife appointment on Thursday which went oh so well. Baby boy's heart rate was 156bpm which is great, and he's measuring perfectly. My fundal height is actually measuring about a week ahead but that doesn't mean much :) I have one more 4 week spacing between appointments and then I'll be seeing my midwife every 2 weeks. We really are getting near the end! Even the weather is reminding me, as winter is slowly turning into spring I'm more and more aware of how soon he'll be here. 

In not so exciting news, I'm cutting out refined sugars and white flour for the next two weeks. Ouch! My body needs some loving right now (I'm super prone to UTI's right now), so we're nurturing it back to health and hoping that cutting out those things will help with that. It's only two weeks of none so I know I can't really complain, but there's a barely opened pint of ice-cream in the freezer that is just taunting me. Soon ice-cream, soon you will be mine! 

The benefit to cutting things out is I've been experimenting a bit more in the kitchen and am just more aware of what I'm putting into my body. The sugar is the hard part, the white flour not so much. As hard as it is, especially in certain moments, I'm reminding myself that this is not only best for me, but also best for this sweet baby, and cutting out foods is so much better than living off of antibiotics. 

Little love's kicks are getting stronger. There are times when I actually give an "oomf" after one because he's kicking so hard. He's also decided that playing on my bladder is a pretty fun game, one I'm not too terribly fond of ;) I can feel him getting bigger, and even when he's not kicking or punching, I can often just feel where he is in there. I am already so incredibly in love with him, I tell Drex this every night. I just don't know how it's possible to have this much love for someone you haven't met quite yet, and the fact that I'll love him more when he's here seems insane to me. HOW can I love him more when I already love him SO much? And yet, I know I can and will. 

95 days!