Pregnancy: Catch Up Weeks 18 & 19

Week 18

This has been a fun week in terms of the babies progress. I felt the odd kick last week, maybe once every couple of days, however now I can feel kicks and movement every day which is more reassuring that everything is going as it should. Even though this is my third child, I still worry about some of the same things I did with my first so these small things make all the difference. The kids are also getting more excited now as my tummy is more obvious so there is something for them to see. However unfortunately whenever I try to let them feel the baby moving, it seems to stop. I swear I have seen my tummy doing small ripples but whenever I go to show someone, everything goes still. I think this little one likes a game of hide and seek.

Week 19

Well the day finally came this week when I had to admit defeat with my favourite pair of jeans *sad face*. Whilst I have had to employ the loop the hair bobble through my jeans to continue wearing my pre-pregnancy jeans, so far I had manged to fit my butt into my usual clothes. That was until now when I got my jeans up to my thighs and even with some pulling, jumping and lunging they would not budge. In fact my efforts to get them up were so impressive that I could not get them off without the help of my daughter pulling them at the legs whilst I lay flat on the bed! My epic fail was made all the worse with the kids laughing whilst shouting that mummy has a fat bottom. Don't you just love children?