The Child

I had my 20 week ultrasound for little Babs (we call her Babs because we still refer to our toddler as "Baby", and don't want to confuse her). Babs is healthy and on schedule! But most importantly, I am now half-way through my pregnancy. WOOT! Admittedly, I have already hit the point in pregnancy that every pregnant woman tends to hit deep into their third trimester - I am just done with it. I'm tired, sore, a bit overwhelmed, and ready to have a healthy baby. But I have 20 more weeks to go. I can be patient, but boy am I having a tough time this go around. I suspect that it has to do with aging.

Since baby is healthy, and I'm mostly healthy; I think I can largely attribute the difficulty and discomfort this time around to the fact that I'm pushing 39. My body is like "ENOUGH!" Don't worry body, we'll get back to our usual non-baby self in... I don't know, 2-3 years? I mean, it's not like you have the baby and, BOOM, body back to normal. There's breastfeeding for a minimum of a year (although possibly much longer as baby will dictate). there's the fact that it can take a couple of years for the uterus to go back down to the original size, and then there's the post-pregnancy and breastfeeding and weaning hormones. Dude, hormones are mother-fuckers. They can really throw things out of whack.

But I digress. I'm super excited to be at this next stage of pregnancy, and now that I know the baby's sex, I'm already debating a list of geeky-inspired names for the child. Oh man, maybe instead of referring to her as Babs, I should start calling her "The Child". Or "Baby Yoda". Okay, "Yoda" would also confuse Ahsoka since he's one of her favorite characters in her Star Wars board book. Seriously, if you want your toddler to start loving Star Wars early this is the book to add to their collection:

While I always encourage people to support their local book store, you can find it on Amazon HERE. You're welcome.