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Pregnancy Update: 20 Weeks + “Finding Out”

20 weeks pregnant

How many weeks along are you? 20

Due date? September 27

How much weight have you gained? 15 pounds

Symptoms? fatigue; general achiness (For the most part, food aversions and nausea are staying away.)

How is baby looking? Baby is the size of a banana! Baby is breech and doing a little dance on my bladder, so I practically have to pee every five minutes. We had a full anatomy scan, and everything is looking/measuring as expected. We also found out that baby is a…

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…BOY!

How is Little Cotton Candy adjusting? Little Cotton Candy (four and a half) has been going through some major changes in the past couple of weeks. After a few days in a row of him not wanting to get ready in the morning, we started a sticker chart with incentives for him to get dressed, go potty, and brush teeth on this own. He is doing great with his new responsibilities, and we often talk about the things he is going to help with once baby number two gets here. He wants to help feed the baby, but we probably won’t be doing any bottles at first, so we’ll try to find him some other ways to help. He seemed a little bummed at the news that baby is going to be a brother, not a sister. Little CC has been referring to the baby as “she” and “her” pretty much since we first told him about the pregnancy. I think he will love having a little bro, though.

How is Mr. Cotton Candy adjusting? Still doing well, though his recent promotion at work has him a little tireder and more stressed. We’re both hoping he has time to adjust before the baby gets here in September. Luckily, he should be able to take off a few weeks of parental leave.

How much planning have you done? Really haven’t done much baby planning since my last update two weeks ago. I’ve updated our teeny registry based on some more hand-me-downs we will get, but still haven’t bought anything.

What does the nursery look like? Still no nursery. Our house has not sold yet, so we are waiting to put an offer on a new home.

What are you missing the most? Still sugar.

What’s the most exciting thing about this stage? Finding out baby is a boy was so exciting! We didn’t find out with Little Cotton Candy until he was born, so it was fun doing it differently this time.

19 weeks

And just for fun, here is a comparison photo between my pregnancy with Little Cotton Candy and this pregnancy, at 19 weeks. So I guess the unsolicited comments I am getting about my size relative to my week of pregnancy are not completely unjustified.

  1. wrkbrk

    pomelo / 5084 posts

    CONGRATS! Boys are awesome.

  2. autumnleaves

    pear / 1622 posts

    Congratulations! You look great!

  3. kristenpete

    apple seed / 1 posts

    Congrats! My due date (baby #1 for us) is the day before yours, and we just found out it’s a boy as well.

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