Baby Journal: Week 24

Hi Lorelai,

This week has been quite exciting! You took your first flight overseas and at the end of this week you successfully explored Amsterdam! We are at the very start of our "Babymoon" in Europe right now, so you have a lot more exploring to do before we are done! You had one day of Week 24 in Amsterdam, so for most of the rest of the trip you'll be rocking Week 25!

Your dad and I will not ever get sick of feeling you kick, I love it every single day.

Flying while pregnant went pretty well, but I'm glad we are doing short train rides the rest of our trip. It is already hard to get comfortable on an overseas flight without being pregnant. Plus getting my required amount of water on a plane is impossible (flight attendents are so stingy!)

I can see you move more regularly now (like where my belly actually moves) and your dad can see it too...which really freaks me out...but I love knowing you're alive and well!

Symtoms: Oh my goodness...the swelling. This happened so fast! Kevin noticed it first (but didn't tell me) when my feet were swelling around the house earlier this week. I didn't notice it until the day we were leaving for our trip, and I realized we weren't even on the plane and my feet were clearly busting out of my Toms. I'm having some back pain, but I think I pulled a muscle doing photography, more than it being baby related!

Promise: I promise to do everything I can to enourage you to learn a second language. As much as we travel, Kevin and I never mastered this and we wish we had. I would love for you to have that opportunity!

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