25 Weeks

Here, have some upper torso and part of a head with your belly pic.

I will now take this opportunity to complain about some oft-forgotten pregnancy symptoms. Oft-forgotten by me, I mean, when I'm not pregnant.

Firstly, I have horrible circulation in my hands. Every night, I wake up repeatedly to discover that both of my hands have fallen asleep and feel like useless gloves full of meat. Plus, even during non-sleeping times, I occasionally get twinges in my wrists and the tips of my fingers sometimes become numb if I'm, say, writing with a pen or pencil, knitting, or doing something of that sort.

Secondly, my hip bones have moved so far apart that I can entertain myself before I go to sleep by lying on my side and squeezing my knees together just so I can feel my hips bounce back into position as if they are now being held apart by a large spring. Boing, boing, boing! Also due to this, if I don't put a pillow between my knees when I sleep, I end up waking up over and over with an intense aching in both of my hips and the upper part of my legs.

Oh, there's other stuff, but I'm going to shut up about that now.

Moving on though, I have roughly 15 weeks left of this pregnancy, which I simultaneously find to be way too much and not nearly enough time. It's going too fast! It's going too slow! Hurry it up! No, I'm not ready! Sigh.