{week 19} It feels like I am just waiting until 20 weeks, if I’m being honest. This week sort of crawled along…
The bump is definitely growing and I feel like I am just slightly bigger than I was with Daphne (linked below). From my vantage point looking down, the bump feels MUCH bigger (to be honest) and then when I look at my side profile, it appears so much smaller. I had one pair of maternity jeans from Madewell (which I didn’t hate, actually) but have pretty much not put on a pair of real pants in the last month. I wear dresses basically every day – quite a few from my favorite (pregnant or not) Sonnet James, this great ribbed one from Target, this one from Cuyana (which I am wearing in this week’s picture) along with a few others. I am trying not to buy anything for this pregnancy that is strictly “maternity” and that I can’t also wear post-partum (i.e., is nursing friendly). Especially given the fact that I am at home 99.9% of the time, it just has never made sense to me to buy maternity clothes that will last just a few months, if that!
The leggings that I have been wearing these days are either these compression ones (which I try to wear in the mornings before I get dressed and in the evenings) that help with the varicose vein on the back of my right leg; and these super comfy, high-waisted ones from AE Aerie which I workout in. I am pretty hopeful that these AE ones will last throughout my pregnancy, since the top is super stretchy, and will also be ones I know I will reach for post-partum (when I don’t want anything compression, like my lulu Wunder Unders, that were a fav pre-pregnancy). I also got a set of maternity/nursing bras since my normal bras were feeling a bit tight around my rib cage (and actually contributing to my feeling nauseous!) and should get me from now thru at least the first few weeks after delivery.
I have a phone call with my mid-wife next week for my 20 week check-up and the following week I will have my mid-pregnancy ultrasound. No one is allowed to come with me to my appointments (which has been fine since Aaron needs to stay home to watch the girls) but knowing that he won’t be at the ultrasound makes me really sad. I was told when I booked the appointment that even FaceTime wouldn’t be allowed in the room – I was/am gutted. But this is the reality of being pregnant during a global pandemic. Would I change it? Nope. But it’s still hard to cope some days. And then it gets me thinking forward to delivery and what that will look like. Everyone seems much more optimistic about what fall will look like but it’s still such an unknown for us. And really, we won’t know what things are looking like until right up to my due date. I’m trying to let it go and know that being anxious about it now does absolutely no good, but the planner in me is pretty frantic!
And here are the weekly updates from Eloise and Daphne!
Happy 19 weeks!
M
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