Week 30

Description (From Mayo Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy):
Your baby is continuing to steadily add weight and layers of fat. From now until about your 37th week of pregnancy, your baby will gain about a half-pound a week.
Your baby may be practicing breathing movements this week by moving his or her diaphragm in a repeating rhytym. These movememnts may even give you baby a case of hiccups.
At 30 weeks into your pregnancy, your baby weighs about 3 pounds and is about 10 1/2 inches long, crown to rump.





Comments:
A few days before we read this description, I turned to Kris and said, our baby girl is has a really good sense of rhythym or she's got hiccups. Seems the latter may have been true. She had about 3 or 4 bouts of hiccups so far. So wierd!





Total Weight Gain:
As of today's doctor's apointment...18 1/2 pounds!
Also learned that my fundal height is now right on..30cm at 30 weeks. The doctor said it may have been measuring shorter because the baby was in a different position or because I'm carrying so low (see the picture below).


On a funny note, before he measured the height to the doctor today (the first of the other four doctors I'll rotate through), I mentioned that my doctor had been keeping an eye on the fundal height. He said, "well, you're tall and slender so, it's probably just the way you're carrying the baby." I must have looked at him funny becuase he followed up with , "you're 5'7" or 5'8" right?" I just laughed and said, "Only seems that way when I'm sitting down!"





Stretch Marks:
The first of these unwanted little buggers showed up in the past few weeks right over my hip bones. Hopefully that will be it :)





Belly Button:
Kris is convinced the top part of my belly button is an outie, but the bottom is still tucked in a bit.





Other Fun Baby-related Things:
Our neighbor brought over a play mat and a bunch of little toys that their boys are too old for now...what generousity!


I finished a lamp shade that I decorated with fabric Dr Suess character cut-outs only to discover the shade doesn't fit the lamp we had. It's okay...it was just an extra table lamp from the living room...we'll get her one of her own :)

We've created a baby name bracket of our two 32 names (16 each) and we're going to try to narrow them down along with the NCAA tournament. No, no, we're not leaving the choosing of a name up the whims of college basketball, we're just paring down the list by pitting my #1 choice against Kris' #16 and so on and so forth...

And now...a picture of the baby belly at 30 weeks: