19-22 Weeks Updated**

In the last while, being pregnant has gotten even more real. And I know I've said that before, but this time it's real like there is no HIDING the fact that I am pregnant anymore, or that there's probably going to be a kid at the end of this tunnel.

Stuff like us hiking this weekend, and this old dude cheering me on, telling me how "your baby is either gonna LOVE or HATE mountains if you keep this up!". And it's not that he cheered me on - which was cool in itself - but that he could SEE that I'm pregnant. No questions asked.

Or stuff like how I now wake up at 2am REGULARLY, not to pee (thank god), but to deal with the horrendous heartburn that's taken over my sleep. I've never in my LIFE had heartburn, yet now, no matter what I try, laying down late into the night, THAT is when the acids want to burn up into my chest and throat. I am however fortunate enough that I can take a Tums, it goes away, and I go back to sleep.

Or an odd one, that I don't know if it's related or not, but I swear to GOD that my armpit hair has almost stopped growing COMPLETELY. I used to have to shave EVERY SINGLE DAY, and now, I can let it build for almost a week before it needs any sharp objects?

There's still the damn ear-plugging stuff which is annoying the SHIT out of me, and I've added in some odd sinus pain that constantly FEELS like a nosebleed but never amounts to one, but overall I'd say if the above are all the things I'm having... I'm pretty damn lucky still.

Yea, there's some new BOOB things going on that I will not mention on the internet for the sake of later being found out and wishing I had NOT written about said 'boob things' in places where co-workers could read them, but overall, meh? This pregnancy thing? Pretty easy! And yea, I know, it's bound to change at some point, and I'm a DAMNED lucky bitch that it's been this easy so far, but honestly, this really isn't the pregnancy I imagined I'd have (what with my NON-pregnant bowel issues) so I'm pretty damn thrilled that this IS the pregnancy I'm having.

To only be suffering with a LITTLE heartburn and a whole LOT of stupidity (I regularly re-read my posts to see I've mixed up their, there, and they're, or our vs are), to only be having some pressure in my pelvis when I RUN, and to only finally NOW be extending my girth in big ways? Well.. honestly... this is all... knock on wood... making even ME annoyed by me!

I REALLY don't want anything bad to happen, and I REALLY don't want any drama, but I AM quite surprised that after all it TOOK to get here, that someone somewhere, has finally taken it upon themselves to EVEN THINGS OUT finally. That someone somewhere has allowed me to continue my life MOSTLY "as-is". That someone somewhere is laughing their ASS off that I have to wear THE ugliest girdle-like thing you've EVER seen (the Mom-Ez*) to run, but that I'm still ALLOWED to run at 22 weeks, to feel like ME at 22 weeks - well, that's pretty f*g cool... even if it is a much UGLIER** version of me.

*Apparently I'm the first pregnant runner in Vancouver to want more than some damned LYCRA to hold my gut in place, so I had to search high AND low for this thing, but good LORD does it work amazingly well! Review to come this weekend!

**Updated to note the "uglier" sentence wasn't meant to be self-deprecating. It was in reference to the ugly girdle only. I still look quite cute... without the girdle:-)