To Be 27 Weeks Pregnant

I am finally not too small for my maternity clothes.

My belly now fills out all of those maternity shirts with the ties in the back. (I remember thinking about that at 22 weeks and how those shirts were still pretty big on me. Not anymore.) I am fully into all of the maternity clothes and am looking bigger and bigger each week. They say that your belly grows a 1/2 inch each week. That just seems like a lot to me. If that is the case, I still have a lot of growing to do.

I have been having stomach pains on and off all week. It is more like pressure that doesn't go away and you kind of feel like you are full all the time. I called the doctor when I got off the train at the end of the day. (It was 4:45pm). The office closes at 5:00pm so I figured that I would be able to just talk to one of the doctors. The answering service picks up. Ugh, not what I was looking for. Although, it was 4:45pm and not 4:45am, so I guess they probably weren't that irritated. Someone calls me back (not a doctor) and tells me to go to the emergency room. Uh, not exactly what I had in mind. I was hoping for a quick phone conversation with one of the doctors who would tell me to take some Tums and rest for the remainder of the night. I guess the person who called me back was in the office, because the next thing I remember is one of the doctors from the practice on the phone with me. She, Dr. Tran, said that it is a GI issue and not a baby issue and I should take some Pepto Bismol, eat some bland food and monitor the feeling over the next few days. If it doesn't improve to set an appointment to come in. We had pizza planned for dinner that night. If I don't put the crushed red pepper on it, does that count as bland?