29 Weeks
THE BABY:
- could weigh up to three pounds now
- has increased nutritional needs due to rapid growth
- is putting on body fat and has more energy
- has billions of neurons developing in her brain every day
I'm a couple weeks into the third trimester now so I though it was about time for another progression collage :) Looking at these photos, it seems that my belly grew fairly slowly until recently. Look at the difference between week 23 and week 28! Baby G was supposed to have doubled her weight in those weeks and it certainly looks like she did.
29 weeks
WEIGHT: +16 pounds total. Another one pound gain this week. I am now officially at my "fat" weight. I put on this much weight when I was in college way back when. Unfortunately then it was all fat, whereas thankfully now it's a lot of baby stuff. It feels weird seeing the scale this high again! I know I may yet gain another 10 lbs, but at least it's for a good cause :)
BODY: No changes in measurements this week. My waist is still at +6 inches, my lower belly is still at +5 inches, and my hips are still at +2 inches. My toes are now completely out of sight if I'm standing up and looking down. My belly button is very shallow, working it's way to becoming an outie. I still don't have any stretch marks (knock on wood!).
THE GOOD: 1) Movement. Baby G is getting so big that when she changes positions, my whole belly changes shape and sometimes shakes my whole body! I like to try to guess the hard body part I can feel when she pushes against the front of my belly. 2) Pregnancy Parking Spots. Now that I look (and feel) so obviously pregnant, I love using the "Expecting Mother" spots that are available at some stores :)
THE BAD: 1) Headache. I believe that this was a direct result of my doctor's appointment, described below. 2) Heartburn. It's a common occurrence no matter what I eat or drink. 3) Back pain. I had about three straight days of really bad lower back and hip pain, but thankfully it went away.
FOOD: I don't have much of an appetite but I still eat whenever my stomach growls. Thanks to the glucose test this week, I'm turned off by sweets for a while. I recently realized that there is one food aversion I still have... salads. I used to love eating big leafy salads but during this whole pregnancy, a salad is the last thing I would pick to eat.
EXERCISE: I didn't get to Power Pump this week because it coincided with my back pain and headache. But I did go walking/jogging a few times! Dulce and I wake up early and hit the jogging path around the new park by our house. The track is exactly .25 miles so we alternate walking and jogging, with a belly support band to keep Baby G in place :)
OTHER NOTES: I had a doctor's appointment this week. Baby G is doing great but this appointment was really hard on me. I had to have a Glucose Screening Test done and I needed another Rhogam shot because my blood is RH negative. First I had three vials of blood drawn, then I had to chug a 10oz glucose drink (orange flavored liquid sugar), then wait an hour (during which time I got my Rhogam shot), and finally have one more vial of blood drawn. I don't know if it was the drink, the shot, losing blood, or the combination of all three, but I felt awful when it was all done. Within hours I had a pounding headache that continued to pound throughout the night (meaning no sleep) and all of the next day before subsiding. I haven't heard anything as of yet about the results of the glucose test. I hope that I passed because I do not want to go through that again!
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"The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there
was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one."
was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one."
~Jill Churchill
Glucose test was aweful for me to! Made me super sick for about a day. Oh my goodness. You are looking amazing! :) I didnt get stretch marks until about 2 weeks before Jalen was due!
ReplyDeleteThanks Megan! I imagine I'll be getting some stretch marks eventually too. I've just been lucky so far :)
DeleteI LOVE your hair in week 23. I know this is about the bump, which is adorable. Seriously you are too cute for words, but I was also checking out your hair and thought I would give you my input ;) Can't wait to baby G's name and see some pics in a few weeks! Hi to Johnnie from us. :)
ReplyDeleteAwww, thanks! I like my hair that week too - I may have to do it like that more often :) Johnnie and I send a big Aloha greeting to you guys and hope you are all doing well!!
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