Halfway

I'm 20 weeks along in my pregnancy now.

Tonight it hit me that this is the halfway point.  Crazy!  It's gone by quickly.  Perhaps it's because I've had a very smooth journey up to now.  When everyone is asking how I am, I almost sheepishly respond with "just fine"!  I really haven't felt much different from when I wasn't pregnant.  I was very fortunate to pass on the common 1st trimester sickness woes.

Only in the last few weeks, have I begun to feel pregnant with the appearance of the baby bump and the unfortunate increase in trips to the washroom.

I have also been so supported by the women around me who are done with, currently not using, or gifted (thanks Mom) maternity clothes that I haven't needed to purchase a single thing with the exception of picking up a belly band so I can continue to wear my pants in comfort for a while longer.

Word has made its way around at work, that I am pregnant and I am now experiencing the odd phenomenon of coworkers and clients looking more at my stomach then my face when passing by.  Understandable. I'm sure I've done it plenty of times myself, but its strange to experience it first hand.

In just over a week we have our anatomy ultrasound in which we will also plan to find out the sex of the baby.  I think that will also make it feel real in a whole new way as well.  We've found we are quite the anomaly as we plan to find out the sex, from what seems to be the norm here: waiting until the birth to find out.

It's pretty amazing to think that baby is listening now and can hear my/our voices and what's happening around us.  I think that might be one of the most exciting milestones so far.  In the last week I feel different sensations/movements, and assume that is the baby making itself known.

I joke around with Nate that we are fortunate to have divided up mealtime duties as we have, me cooking and him washing the dishes, otherwise we might run out of plates to eat on.  I seem to have developed a major case of butterfingers.  When the broccoli hits the floor in meal prep it's not as big of deal as if it was a drinking glass or plate!

We will continue to learn together as we walk this journey, and now with the knowledge that the next half of the pregnancy ends with meeting baby Wiebe.

Can't have too much of a good thing!

Well we have not updated the blog in almost a year, but we definitely have something worth announcing.  This gives us a forum to share with those we care about, yet not have it on Facebook.

We are expecting an additional member to be added to our family as of early November!
Yay, more Wiebes!

There's lots to do in order to prepare for this life-altering experience.  The church is very supportive and expresses well-wishes and joy over our news just about every week.  We have received a few gifts of maternity clothes passed along and the first few baby items.

It still strikes me as surreal and a bit weird to see a baby bottle or sip cup around the house.  "Who left the .... oh wait, that's ours."  And to think, soon there will be baby stuff everywhere.  Leslie's reading up on the whole process and I have a few reading assignments that I'll need to engage in soon.

Together we are tracking growth on an iPad app that shows us what parts our baby will be developing each week.  It's quite fascinating, especially early on, just how intricately humans are put together... and how fast the growth really is.  We continue to be grateful for good reports from the Dr. and pray for a safe, healthy mom and baby as the pregnancy comes to fulfillment.