24 weeks - Viability!

24 weeks! I usually change into something more "plain" when I get home so that you can see the bump better, but I didn't feel like it today, so you get my circles!shirt, lol.

So 24 weeks is the big "viability" milestone, meaning that if Baby Rhody were born today, he/she would have a 50% chance of survival. I hadn't given much thought to this milestone. First of all, because of my miscarriages and subsequent clotting diagnosis, I feel like it's more possible for my LO to pass away without any signs than to be born early. Secondly, 50% of babies born at this stage survive ... but I would rather my baby do more than survive, so I want Baby Rhody to wait until he/she is fully cooked.

However, yesterday, I was watching the Duggars TV show on the birth of their 19th child, who was born at 25 weeks. Looking at that tiny baby in the incubator, it finally hit me. A baby of that size is inside ME. There's an actual baby in there. Sometimes, I feel like my mind still hasn't fully made that connection.

As to how I'm feeling these days, I still say I'm feeling pretty good. Heartburn is my constant companion these days. (The newest culprit? CARROTS. Yes, I didn't believe it either.) I had some pretty severe back pain over the past week until it got bad enough to get me off of my duff and do my yoga exercises yesterday morning. Since then, my back has felt great. I still need to get bra extenders, as my ribcage has started to expand, which is contributing to the back pain.

Baby Rhody's movements these days seem to have slowed down somewhat. I think he/she may have had a growth spurt last week--I was ravenously hungry for days--and now is feeling a bit crowded. Baby Rhody is usually good enough to give me a kick every time I start to seriously worry, or at least poke back if I give him/her a good poke!