It just keeps growing

"Here is the November belly shot. I'm 26 weeks along.

From this angle it doesn't look incredibly large, but my view from up top is starting to diminish. I could only see about half of Jackson's head from above (and with his Norwegian noggin that's saying a lot). I do think BITB and my belly get bigger every day.

To the growing list of pregnancy symptoms that have returned, I'd like to add difficulty breathing (as BITB rises up due to my lack of torso and inhibits my lung space) and inability to think (this proves very difficult in many many ways).

Also with the increased size comes larger movements from BITB. The other night I swore s/he was doing somersaults and the kicks have started to move out towards my sides as well. Maybe with my lack of torso this baby is trying to gain as much room as possible by enlarging my belly horizontally as well as vertically . . .

Jackson has noticed the growing size of my belly and has started to heed his dad's words by telling me, "You can't do [insert activity] with Baby in your Belly." Very chivalrous and yet, a little bittersweet.

I have my glucose test this coming Thursday and hope that I pass it. I wasn't able to ignore all the sweets around our house that accumulated for Halloween. Hopefully that wont be enough for me to develop gestational diabetes. Last time my glucose test showed that I was slightly anemic, so I'm half expecting for that to happen again, especially since I can't seem to get enough salt in my diet (don't actually know if that has anything to do with iron deficiency but my mind is convinced it does). I'm also really hankering milk, which is a bit better than wanting to salt everything, and surprisingly it helps with the acid reflux. It's a win-win combo of calcium and indigestion calmer, yum."
--Clare