Went to a line dance last night in a size 12 Oasis top and it just fit! It was well cool. The line dancing didn't hurt me too much at the time but I've been feeling it today.
Dollop is fidgeting loads and loads and I'm constantly being prodded here, there and everywhere. So different from Ellis and it's just so exciting to see it moving all the time. Even when I was dancing I could feel it moving and pushing outwards. Can't wait to meet the little guy.
Sleeping has become more difficult too. Been finding it harder to find a comfortable position and turning over with a sore pelvis isn't easy either.
Still loving every minute and trying to take it all in. I also try to get Ellis involved as much as possible. He daily says hello to baby and gives my belly a kiss. Yesterday he even gently stroked my tummy and rubbed some cream into it. I have also showed him pictures of a baby in a belly and tried to tell him that it is the same as my belly. Not sure he actually "gets" it but at least I'm trying. I want to find a really nice present for him, from his baby brother for when we get home from the hospital.
Rob took the usual bump pictures and did my measurements.
How Dollop is doing:
The baby's lungs and digestive tract are almost fully developed. While the baby may soon slow up growing in length, (he measures about 15.7 inches/ 40 centimetres from crown to toe by now), he will continue to gain weight until he's born.
This week the baby continues to open and shut his eyes. He can probably see what's going on in utero, distinguish light from dark and even track a light source. If you shine a light on your stomach, the baby may move his head to follow the light or even reach out to touch the moving glow. Some researchers think baring your stomach to light stimulates visual development. But don't expect 20/20 vision when the baby is born -- newborns can see a distance of only about 8 to 12 inches/ 20 to 30 centimetres. (Children with normal vision don't reach 20/20 vision until about age 7 to 9.) To complete the picture, your baby now has eyebrows and eyelashes.
A pint and a half/ around a litre of amniotic fluid now surrounds the baby but that volume decreases as he gets bigger and has less room in your uterus. As you and the baby continue to grow, don't be alarmed if you feel as if you can't get enough air, it's just your uterus pressing against your diaphragm.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel though. At about 34 weeks (or just before birth, if this is your second or third pregnancy), your baby's head will move down into your pelvis as the baby gets into the right position for birth. That will make breathing and eating a lot easier.
30 weeks this time...
...30 weeks last time.
Measurements:
Weight = 13st
Tummy = 104cm
Upper arm = 29cm
Upper leg = 61.5cm
Ankle = 24cm
Neck = 33cm
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