24 Week Belly Shot

Today I am 24 weeks along! The baby is as long as an ear of corn (about 11 1/2 inches) and weighs about 1.4 pounds. This is according to my iphone pregnancy application I have. We did have a midwife appointment this week and I am measuring right at 24 weeks, so that was good. This appointment was more of a touch base and see how things are going appointment. Our medical care has gotten a little more confusing with the events of the past couple months. We initially started the pregnancy going through a midwife and now are sort of sharing care between her and a Maternal Fetal Medical clinic that specializes in high risk situations. The goal is to still be able to use our midwife for the delivery and all the routine things for the remainder of the pregnancy. We LOVE our midwife. I've never had a doctor be willing to spend as much time talking with us and I never feel rushed. But, in the event that I go into very early pre-term labor or have any unexpected complications we will have her in addition to an OB at the birth. We are in good hands. Things are stable with my cerclage, which was the procedure I had done in January.

I am currently still on modified bedrest. I try not to think about it too much and just take each day at a time. It feels overwhelming when I think of how long I have been laying around and how much longer I still will be laying around. But, it's been over 5 1/2 weeks now and surprisingly when I look back on it, it's gone pretty fast. Being on modified bedrest means laying down pretty much most of the time but being able to get up to get breakfast, lunch and dinner. I can take short trips out of the house if I will be able to be sitting down wherever I am going.

Tonight Chad and I went out to dinner. I would say our first "date" out since all this. It felt great to get our and go somewhere nice. We tried out a new restaurant in the area of Nashville called the Gulch. The restaurant was called "Urban Flats". They specialize in flat bread pizzas with lots of different toppings. We got 2 to share...one was fig and prosciutto and another was Hawaiian. Both were delicious! we split a Molten Chocolate cake for dessert and we got 10% off the bill because the fire alarm went off for about 5 minutes while we were eating. So, after our quick dinner out we are back home and I'm back on the couch to watch a movie. We are going to watch "The Secret Life of Bees". I recently read the book and really enjoyed it and have been looking forward to seeing the movie.

Let's see...what else.......I can't think of anything at the moment and we are ready to start the movie. Considering it is 9 at night we had better get started if I have any hope of making it through the movie without falling asleep.