29/30

 

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 29 weeks, 5 days

Size of baby: about 17 inches, 3.1lbs.  As big as a Butternut squash.  Mmm, fall is coming

Total Weight Gain/Loss: 33 (GAINED, in case you were wondering)

Maternity Clothes: i've been looking for a couple of staple maternity pieces to incorporate into my wardrobe, but I've had no luck.  My old maternity clothes are still too big, but everything is growing...at the speed of light, it seems...so I'm really wanting to find a few pieces.

Gender: boy

Movement: he is moving a WHOLE lot.  love it...it's so fun to feel his little limbs with our hands.  We're never quite sure if it's an arm or a leg we're feeling, but it's fun just the same!  The babe has been doing a LOT of cervical stomping(phrase coined by K8), and in the past week or so I have been feeling like maybe he's being a little feet-first booger.  Hope not, but we'll get to have another ultrasound in a few weeks and we'll know then.

Food Cravings: if water had calories, i'd be set.  It's been so hot and the babe is all up in my stomach these days, making it hard to enjoy eating very much, so all I'm wanting(right.now.) is Zaxby's ice and water.  Mmm, watermelon...strawberries...GA peaches...but I don't have cravings, right?  Haha!

What I miss: I might be missing bending over without my stomach trying to jump up and out of my throat...just a little bit.

Sleep: sleep is good when it happens...every couple of weeks, I'll have several days of uncomfortable, fitful sleep(growth spurt?), but it gets better.  I'm just tired all the time.

Symptoms: crazy dreams continue, fatigue, bloody noses, indigestion, needing to pee all the time, sciatica, and the sweet pelvic pain.  And contractions.  Bleh.

Best Moment this week: We got to go to church as a family for the first time since Kentucky.  We have missed it SO much!

What I am looking forward to: my next appointment - it's my last monthly, then only TWO every two weeks - then it's weekly until baby time!!