Two down, one to go...

...trimesters, that is! I can't believe that I'm already officially in the third trimester of this pregnancy. Maybe it was the hubbub of birthdays and holidays, but the second trimester just whizzed by. It probably also helped that it was relatively comfortable.

I am now entering the uncomfortable part of the pregnancy. I'm having Braxton Hicks contractions. I get breathless when I lay down, and it's becoming harder to find a good sleeping position. I've always been a semi-insomniac, and between having to get up to use the bathroom and then not being able to get comfortable in bed, it's getting worse. Maybe it's my body's way of getting me used to (further) sleep deprivation.

But the bright side, of course, is that it means the pregnancy is progressing as it should. I'm feeling and seeing the baby move more and more. I don't really remember exactly the timeline of everything from my pregnancy with Jack, but my sense is that she is less active than he was in utero. Maybe a sign of a mellower child? (Please?)

Another difference is that I seem to have a sweeter tooth with this pregnancy. The downside of that, aside from the added calories, is that I don't handle sugar all that well. So if I indulge my craving, I end up bouncing off the walls for the next few hours. I'm trying to keep plenty of fruit on hand so that at least the sugars I do eat come with lots of healthy fiber and antioxidants.

I can't tell if I'm carrying differently this time around. When I was pregnant with Jack, even strangers would come up to me and say, "You're having a boy." I've had fewer comments in general with this one (maybe because it's so much harder to venture far afield with a three-year-old), but so far only one person has told me that I look like I'm carrying a girl.

I feel enormous. I tried to find some pictures of when I was pregnant with Jack to compare, but I actually didn't take that many of my bump back then. I have a picture of my belly at five months and at seven months but not at six months, which is how far along I am now. (I think I wasn't yet fully in paparazzi mode back then with my camera always at the ready, so fewer pictures were taken overall.)

Anyway, here is my five-month bump with Jack:


And me at five months with Baby Girl:

(A little bigger this time, right?)

And here is my bump just yesterday:


If experience is any indication, the next two months are going to fly but the last one is going to drag. I'm trying not to freak out thinking about how much we still have to do to get ready. Better go find a cookie apple cookie (who am I kidding?) instead.