Close to my heart(burn)

Okay... here's our weekly (or mostly-weekly) update from babycenter:

By now, your baby weighs 3.75 pounds and is about 16.7 inches long, taking up a lot of space in your uterus. You're gaining about a pound a week and roughly half of that goes right to your baby. In fact, she'll gain a third to half of her birth weight during the next 7 weeks as she fattens up for survival outside the womb. She now has toenails, fingernails, and real hair (or at least respectable peach fuzz). Her skin is becoming soft and smooth as she plumps up in preparation for birth.

To accommodate you and your baby's growing needs, your blood volume has increased 40 to 50 percent since you got pregnant. With your uterus pushing up near your diaphragm and crowding your stomach, the consequences may be shortness of breath and heartburn. To help relieve your discomfort, try sleeping propped up with pillows and eating smaller meals more often.

I had heartburn early on, but it was very manageable, didn't keep me up at night or extremely uncomfortable... then the 3rd trimester came.

These are my new favorite friends... Nothing I do regarding the food that I do or do not eat seems to have any affect on the burn... and sleeping with my head propped up is giving me a kink in my neck and a morning headache. So... Tums it is. Tums, and spending 2 or 3 sessions during the night of sitting at the side of my bed for a couple of minutes.

That's okay though, I have to pee that often anyway!