23 Weeks!

How Far Along: 23 Weeks! Baby is just over 11 inches and weighs over a pound now - about the size of a large mango.

Weight Gain/Loss: +0.2 this week

Symptoms:

• Back Pain
• Nausea
• Dizziness
• Round Ligament Pain
• Swelling

Cravings:

• Orange juice (but it makes me nauseous when I drink it too fast)

Aversions:

• Same crap, different week

Maternity Clothes:

• Yep yep, HOWEVER, I did try on a pair of jeans and put a hair tie around the button, through the hole, and back to the button and it worked with a long undertank and shirt over that. Can't wear just one shirt over it though because you can see that they don't button all the way. lol. Maybe I'll stick to dresses...

Movement:

• Ava loves to kick. She's going to be such a great soccer player!

Gender:

• Girl :)

Belly Button In or Out:

• STILL IN! I keep reading that it should pop out any day now (for the past week or two, but so far its still looking very much like an innie...a stretched out innie though...the bottom is more stretched and the top looks normal. Who knows, maybe this will be the lucky week!?

Thoughts:

• This week has been exciting because the baby room is starting to remind me of a real baby room! Everything is stacked in there right now and only a couple things are set up, but it still just makes me excited every time I walk in there. It makes it much more real. Yes, my baby still has 17 weeks to go, but time flew by quickly already so I'm doubting it won't fly by quickly near the end either! Third trimester starts at the end of the month!