Week 23

I think I am losing my mind… I swear for a second I thought I was at 26 weeks. I had to come on this blog to see what week I was at.

This week has been tough. Allergy season kicked in full gear. After the doctors told me I can’t take my allergy meds everyday, I was almost heartbroken. Do they know what i look like when I can’t take my pill? Do they know how I feel? I can’t sleep thru the night no matter what I do. I have tired sleeping with one pillow, two pillows, no pillows, on my couch, but nothing helps.  I can’t breathe thru my nose, my eyes itch non-stop, and my nose is peeled from the nose blowing.  My eyes and nose water like it’s their job. My eyes and nose are crusty when I wake up in the morning, which is so disgusting. Eye boogies and eye crust gross me out more than road kill. Thank god I wake up before Anand does; if he saw me like that it might change his opinion of me.

The baby has been kicking a lot lately. You can feel him from the outside but it’s not that intense yet. Yesterday I think he was having a dance party in there because I would feel him every few hours for minutes at a time. The kicks haven’t become that discomforting. My mom says when she was carrying my brother he would kick her so hard that she would wake up in the middle of the night.

Here are a couple of new shots courtesy of my friend Jalpa: