Crazy Socks & Writer's Block

Week 26  I keep waking up in the middle of the night feeling a strong heartbeat like rhythm in my stomach in one spot, over and over. I was so worried that I was squishing or hurting the baby in my sleep and had no idea what it was. When it kept happening during the day, I went down the google wormhole and discovered that they are hiccups! I felt what I thought were hiccups a month ago, but these feel completely different, however they keep happening multiple times a day and always in the middle of the night around 3 in the morning.  Whenever I come home from work and Sammy starts talking to the baby, he usually moves like crazy. There were a few days this week though where every time Sammy started talking to him, he'd stop moving. The second Sammy would turn away or take his hand off my stomach, the baby would feel like he was doing flips. Then Sammy would try to feel and he would stop immediately. He's a little prankster this kid. A few nights later though I was layin...

Week 24  I went to the doctor for my 24 week check up and everything looked normal. She had a hard time finding his heartbeat because he kept squirming every time she found it, but it sounded nice and strong. My sciatic nerve has been bothering me a lot and I've tried a lot of different stretches, but it still acts up. My dad swears that icing is the only way to help so I've been sitting on a bag of peas a lot. One night Sammy was making a meal that could have peas added to it, but he said, "No way, those are your butt peas." One night we had a frozen pizza for dinner and it was a pretty big one. Sammy had one slice and was full, and I ate the rest of the pizza. I was starving! I'm so much hungrier, but I can feel my stomach starting to get smaller as the baby grows. I need more food, but there's not enough room for it all at once.  One day at work the baby kept moving and sitting on a nerve which was painful. I kept feeling pain in a weird spot in ...