This is what I looked like at 22 weeks last time.

Hello again friends, so this picture was taken this morning when I was approximately 16 weeks 3 days pregnant. My haven't we grown in the past 2 weeks!!! I love the belly aspect of pregnancy, I get giddy every time that I notice that I actually have a preggo belly sticking out there.

I had another prenatal visit this past weekend. I love my midwife more every time that I see her. She gave me some exercises to do for the litany of round ligament/sacrum pains that I've been having. It's basically to roll my pelvis around in any position that I can in order to get my pelvis all lined up right. Saturday night I started out lying on the floor gently rocking my pelvis around, trying to get whatever is causing that jolting pain above my tailbone worked out. The floor wasn't really working, so I stood up and started rolling my pelvis in some type of psuedo-erotic-slow-motion version of doing a hula hoop dance. Eventually, I felt something pop into place though, and although the pains haven't gone away completely they have lessened. So who cares that my shades were open...maybe the neighbors learned something.

In addition to the exercises, the appointment went well. She's glad I'm over the nausea (so am I). The baby's heartbeat is strong at between 156 and 160 beats/minute. Papajama is still convinced it's a boy, but I think otherwise. And I'm measuring right at 16 weeks (well I was on Saturday...now I'm pretty sure I'm measuring at 25.

Babyjama wasn't too keen on having a semi-stranger touch her mama. The blood pressure gauge got an earful, and she nursed while we listened to the heartbeat. I love how my midwife will tell babyjama that she's not hurting me, and if I don't pipe up quickly enough to say "don't worry sweetie this doesn't hurt, it's super cool." She smacks my arm and gives me a look like back me up here MAN!!! (I'm pretty sure she's part hippy). She's great.

How are all of you?