Julie's Boggle

We passed the 5 month mark last week… Just another four to go till our little guy is officially due. Wow.

5 months sounds like a long time, but it seems like it’s gone quite quickly. I suppose because all the real progress has probably been in the last 4 weeks or so.

I feel like I’ve got off relatively lightly so far. Out of the long list of common complaints that most pregnant women have at this stage, I have only got a few check-marks, and they’re all pretty minor.

The bump is definitely progressing. It’s not much bigger girth-wise than the last picture Tom put up, but there just seems to be more of it in a way. Like the widest area is spreading vertically. I’m not going to be able to hold off on the maternity clothes shopping trip for much longer — as well as running out of trousers, I’m now running out of tops that discretely cover the stretching waistband!

I’m also discovering a new set of things that don’t quite work the way they used to.

One of these is the muscles. I made a semi-sprint of, maybe, 150m the other day to catch a bus. And the next day, I was *sore*. So no exercising without warming up properly.

The next is the bending over. It’s not muscle strain that stops me here, but either heartburn (if I keep it up for too long) or just a dull pain in the abdomen if I bend too far. More to squash I suppose. Losing this flexibility has been harder to adjust to.

But aside from that, it’s all pretty good. I’m enjoying feeling the little prods and jiggles from inside (and Tom has been quite lucky and managed to have his hand in position at the right time to feel some himself as well) and everything seems to be ticking along fairly smoothly. So let’s just hope it stays this good for another couple of months!