Week 29

How Far Along: 29 weeks & 7 days

How Big is Baby: The size of an acorn squash!

15.2 inches & 2.54 pounds <3

Movement: As the weeks go on, this baby gets wigglier! It feels more like somersaults or the baby just pushing against my stomach rather than kicks these days though. Don’t get me wrong though, I still get my fair share of kicks haha. Baby is most active in the evenings. After dinner when I lay down, the babe goes crazy!

Feeling: I went to the doctor last week and mentioned how I was still having pelvic pain and she said unfortunately I will most likely have the pain until I deliver the baby. As long as the little nugget is healthy though, i’ll take the pain!

Nursery Update: Baby B got completely spoiled for Christmas (even though we tried to tell our families not to buy baby anything for Christmas… that obviously didn’t work). This child has an unbelievable amount of packer and bucks onesies. Feeling sorry if this baby is a girl and is stuck wearing sports clothes every time Jaime dresses her haha. Don’t worry, if it is a girl, I will be buying all the floral and bows I can find! My baby shower is in a few weeks now though so lots of organizing/washing will be happening soon!

Sleep: Still sleeping really well but not feeling very energized when I wake up. I wake up almost like clock work at 3am daily for a quick bathroom break. I have to have a humidifier next to me when I sleep and am still waking up with a dry mouth (even though I drink tons of water throughout the night) and chapped lips 🙁

Random: This past week I had a doctors appointment and Jaime finally got to come with because he was off work! They appointments are typically super short (like 20 minutes maybe). They checked my weight and blood pressure and then it came time to check on the babe. They checked the heartbeat which sounded great. Although it was hard for my doctor to catch the little babe because every time she would find the heartbeat the baby would kick right at the Doppler haha. It sounded like when you tap on the end of a microphone and we were all cracking up. After the heartbeat, she measured my stomach. The way this works, is your stomach is roughly supposed to be the same inches as you are in weeks. So if I am 28 weeks, my stomach should measure roughly 28cm. Well, when she measured mine, she did a double take at my chart because I was measuring 25cm when I “should” be 28.5cm. She scheduled for us to come in a week later for a growth ultrasound to make sure baby is still growing as they should be. She said it’s not uncommon for someone who has as long as a torso as I do to measure smaller but to be on the safe side they want to check. Thank goodness Jaime was with me though because if it was just me I would have freaked out and he is actually level headed and asks questions like worst case scenario so we know either way everything will be okay. The appointment was today and baby was healthy as can be weighing in at 3lbs 3 ounces <3

We scheduled our maternity pictures! They are with our wedding photographer so I am super excited because the pictures she takes are always the most amazing. I am trying to decide if we should do them inside or outside. I would choose outside for sure if we didn’t live in the tundra haha.

I will be 30 weeks tomorrow! I have a feeling these next 10 weeks (give or take) are going to go by super slow.

I still can’t believe we are so far along already! Hurry up little nugget!

Love,

Nicole B