Holy growing belly, Batman!

This week my closet staged an intervention with me, in which many of my pants and shirts let it be known that they were going to have to take a sabbatical till fall. So this weekend I shopped for maternity clothes and bought the first round. It's an interesting experience shopping for clothes to fit me in the short term and hopefully grow with me for another 5 months and 20 pounds. I guess time will tell if these clothes will make it to term with me or not. Fortunately the clothes are pretty comfortable and reasonably cute. I'm very glad that I work at an office with a business casual dress code. I'll have to get a few pairs of nice slacks and a few more things but thank goodness I'm not having to shell out for a few business suits too.



Here's a picture of me in one of the new outfits. Not too bad, eh? At least now the belly definitely looks like a baby bump and not like a beer gut...9 pounds now and counting.

 And the requisite belly shot:

 

Last Tuesday we had our appointment with the midwife. Measurements were good and we had a strong 125 bpm heartbeat. And next Tuesday morning we have our sonogram and get to see baby for the first time since s/he was 8 weeks old. We'll get to make sure everything is going well with development and, if baby cooperates, we'll also find out if it's a he or she.


As for symptoms, this weekend it was acid reflux that reared its ugly head. I had been pretty relieved to have largely avoided this problem for as long as I have but it seemed everything I ate this weekend seemed to set off trouble. Today at work, rationalizing that if I'm going to have acid reflux anyway I might as well eat what I want, I put some habanero sauce in my soup and...it was fine. I chewed a few Tums throughout the day to help but never had any trouble. So, was it a random flare-up this weekend, or was today just a brief reprieve? Hoping time will prove that it was just a random flare-up.


Lately my ankles have also gotten a little sore. I know I haven't twisted them or anything like that so I assume it must be the early stages of swelling...oh joy. I just hope I don't develop cankles!