25 weeks! The Newest first!

I have some very interesting things to talk about this week, and it's not for the shy! I realize there is a fine line between being honest and too much information, but you know I gotta toe the line for the sake of being real. You know all those pins on Pinterest and those articles on huff post that claim to tell you the 10 things NO ONE tells you about pregnancy? Well none of those were ever things that I've never heard of. But! I have experienced something that indeed NO ONE warned me about with pregnancy! Perhaps this is because I am the ONLY one who has experienced it, but that is doubtful, although... Mommy did say I was special. In discovering this thing that nobody warned me about I also experienced the first time I....... Actually I'll get to that later, I should weed out any men who may be reading this by going through the mundane stuff first!
This week has been a good one. Little guy has been moving and grooving all the time. Sometimes I wonder if he is getting enough sleep between the cartwheels he preforms in my womb. I've been trying to nail down his position, and then I realized that all 13 inches of him just move everywhere. He is a free bird. I thought he was lying transverse, which I'm pretty sure is how he prefers it (you better get over that pretty soon here little guy) maybe because I'm short torso-ed? But I woke up this morning and rolled over and I could feel the entire length of his body running from top to bottom, not side to side. He is a long little baby. I've had conversations with him about proper positioning for birth. If he doesn't present head first then I will not be able to deliver at Bella Vie, and since he is fond of his midwives he better be head down when he chooses to arrive. Until I get a little further along and he starts running out of room I won't worry about what position he is in. I believe the saying "let them be little" applies here? Cartwheel your little heart out son!
I had another great dream about my little Uriah. It started off kinda funny, but the good part was that I got to "see" my son in my dream, and wouldn't you know it, he looked just like his daddy! He was the cutest thing, and he latched like a pro (just like his daddy, wait... what? TMI!)
The belly button situation is still stretching. I am confident I will have stretch marks around my belly button, so cute! The perfect look for summer! All the cool kids will wish they started the trend. I have to say I am SO SO SO incredibly thankful to my past self for never getting my belly button pierced! That would have been the worst mistake ever at this point in the game, it pains me to think what worse off my belly button would be had I chosen to cut a hole through it. I never even thought about getting it pierced because I'm just that forward thinking. Go Carol!
If there are any men still reading this at this point, take a hike, it's about to get incredibly feminine up in here.
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Ok, I think they are gone. On to the "good stuff." My body has changed in so many ways through these 25 weeks. Every once in awhile I look myself over in the mirror and notice the changes, and take it all in because this is the new Carol, I'm a mom now, and I need to be ok with how my body looks, and appreciate the changes my body must go through to support the life of my baby. The first change I noticed were my HUGE knockers I mean breasts. The ladies grew at least two cup sizes, and it hurt. Then I noticed my midsection start to get bigger and bigger. I also noticed my nipples have gotten a little bigger, and a little darker which was hard for me to cope with. I always thought I had nice sized ones, and I didn't want them to get bigger because I didn't think it was "cute." But then I realized, because my husband kept telling me how great I look, that it really doesn't matter. Even if my husband wasn't completely enamored with my pregnant body, my body is for my son for the time being, and I'm grateful that my body knows what to do to take care of my son and give him the nourishment he needs. Also, the only reason I'm not ok with my body changing is because I have this idea in my head of what beauty is based on what society has told me. I've really been trying to change this idea because it's not helpful to think hurtful things about myself. I've been trying to find beauty in everyday people, especially moms. I've found that finding beauty in others makes it a lot more easy to find it in myself. Funny how that works.
As I was inspecting my nipples (did I really just say that?) and I found two skin tags on my left nipple on the outside. WHAT???? I've never had those before! Naturally, being a picker, I ripped them off because they were just barely attached and barely hanging in there. That nipple has since healed and you can't even tell they were there. Last night I was looking at the other nipple and I noticed ANOTHER one! But this one is on the tip. I was trying to figure out how big it was, and how attached it was, and then all of a sudden... COLOSTRUM! It leaked out a little bit! Just a tiny bit of clear fluid! At first I had no idea if it was from the skin tag or if it was indeed my pre-milk. I just assumed it was from the tag. I found out pretty quickly that this tag wasn't just going to come off because it was red and angry now and my poor nipple hurt BAD. This morning I woke up and looked at my other nipple to compare the two, and what do you know, COLOSTRUM! It's official, I'm a leaker. I used to be afraid of the day this would happen, but now that it has happened I'm so impressed with my body! I'm SO excited to feed my baby! Apparently my boobs are excited too! Well, I guess my nipple is a little pissed off that I was messing with it, but other than that, they are getting ready to do the GREATEST thing they were created to do, feed my baby! They are fulfilling their grand purpose in life, way to go tittties!
I texted my midwife this morning and asked her about the skin tag because I clearly couldn't take care of it myself. I also wasn't sure if it would interfere with anything since I think it is close to a duct. She called me and told me she would have to see it to tell what it was, and then possibly refer me to a dermatologist. So I will be going to Bella Vie on Monday to have her check it out.
So there ya go, the one thing NOBODY warned me about: Skin tags on your nipples! I hope that none of my pregnant lady friends has to experience this, but if you do, you are not alone! I'm there in the trenches with you!
Also, why is it not a bigger deal when a woman leaks for the first time? I feel like it's a right of passage! I guess I am kinda crazy, but I see this as a huge step in my pregnancy. So to all my fellow leaky-boobies, cheers for today we carry child, and tomorrow we feed our babies the best stuff on earth!
I'm gonna go check myself into the loony bin now!