24 weeks

How far along? 24 weeks and 2 days! (Officially in the first week of viability)

Baby this week? Malcolm is roughly the size of an ear of corn, or 12.5 inches long.  He's fine tuning some of his motor skills. He also can sense direction, as in he is aware of when he is upside down, etc. His respiratory system is developing rapidly and his lungs are maturing! Like I said, we are in the week of viability so if we're to go into preterm labor, he would have a chance. But let's just hope that's a bridge we don't have to cross this time!

Symptoms?  OK so this is definitely getting better as far as the nausea goes. I don't have to spend all day in bed anymore and am able to function somewhat normally. I still feel kinda yucky all the time, except when I'm eating.  I also tried to go without my nausea patch and I ended up spending half of today in bed. But I'm good now. The meds I'm on for nausea are sooooo expensive! I'm on the patches and that's $183 for a month supply. I'm on phenagren, and that's $140 for a month. And I use zofran for the really bad days. Then factor in my progesterone oil shots and that's $100 for 10 shots. I'm an expensive, high maintainence pregnant person! It doesn't help I'm not bringing in any money. Ugh. 3 more months! Oh, aside from the nausea, I've been experiencing braxton hicks contractions, which are totally normal... But of course my mind wanders to worse scenarios. It doesn't help that I can feel Malcolm very low along with some pinchy sensations around my cervix. This is a very stressful time during pregnancy if you have incompetent cervix.

Cravings/Aversions?  No specific cravings, really.  My aversions are becoming less severe too. Garrett can cook chicken in the house again!

Goals for the Week?  I'd like to organize Mason's old clothes to see where we are at with those.  Maybe get out the newborn stuff. I haven't hardly done anything to get ready for Malcolm but his arrival is so close to Masons that I already feel pretty ready. We don't need a whole lot immediately outside of a double stroller.  The big thing I want to have done is clean and reorganize the basement.

Mason?  Mason is exploring all kinds of different sounds recently. For a while, all he would say is "mum mum mum."  Now he's making a few other noises, including fake laughing. Lol.  He isn't pulling himself to standing yet but he'll kind of go up on one knee (like the proposal position.) And is still doing lots of downward facing dog and planks. He's also starting to explore more foods and textures. Admittedly, we've been a bit slow on introducing new foods. Partly because we have no idea what we are doing. But mostly because we have this huge fear of him choking. I imagine we'll be a bit more confident with Malcolm. Masons top 2 teeth are finally through the gums and he can take bites of stuff so that kind of helps our confidence when feeding him something new.