We are five months pregnant today! So excited for this milestone.

I read that our baby girl is now the size of a cantaloupe (why is this word not spelled like antelope?), but I don’t believe it. Do you think there is cantaloupe-sized baby in me? haha. Anyway, she is VERY active and I love it! It is SO special every single time I feel her move or kick.

I am so thankful that I have been feeling GREAT lately. Thank you to everyone who gave me advice about lower back pain. It has been much better this week (not sure what exactly made it better, since I’ve tried pretty much every suggestion!).

Oh, and I would like to give a shout out to Andrea, who just gave birth to her third baby boy, Owen, today at 11:45am! She persevered through WEEKS of early labor and gave birth today without an epidural. I’m so proud of her!

This post is absolutely not meant as a complaint… but as a desire to get advice from other moms who have experienced this. As I said in my week 19 post, I have been experiencing a lot of lower back pain. It was the worst it has ever been last night. If you’ve also experienced this, do you mind answering a few questions for me?

-Did you do certain things that aggravated the pain more? (I’m wearing flat shoes, sleeping on my side, trying to have good posture, etc., but if there are other things I may be doing to cause this, I want to know.)

-Did you use heat? Cold? Alternate both?

-Was it worse on one side? Is that normal? (Mine is only on the right side.)

-Did you take pain reliever?

-Was it a sign for you that your belly was about to “pop out”? (I think that might be it for me.)

-Did massages help?

-Did you do stretches? If so, what kind?

-Do you have any other advice for things I can do?

Thank you for your opinions and your prayers!!

I really did not feel like taking a picture tonight, but I did anyway! Figured I would regret it if I didn’t. Click here to compare with last week’s photo.

Our baby is growing and developing, for which we are very thankful.

I’ve been feeling great overall, with the exception of some back pain. If any of you have any ideas for me to alleviate the lower back pain, I’ll take it! But I really can’t complain. I’ll take back pain over nausea any day!

I feel our baby girl moving almost every day now. Very exciting!