23-30 weeks!!

Well first off, I FINALLY figured out how to get wordpress to stop making my images so small!! YAY! Here I am at 29 weeks pregnant with Mr. B!

Symptoms?

For week 30 I finally weened myself off of Diclegis. I still have nausea spells but they are bearable and I am SO thankful to no longer be on any medicines!

I spent week 28-29 very sick with Bronchitis. I actually ended up at Wake Med for a chest X-ray after struggling to breath and developing the worst cough I think I’ve ever had. It was miserable! After a trip to the Ob, Wakemed, an inhaler, cough medicine and a z pack, I finally started to gain some life back into me and am officially on the mend. 🙂 Mr. B was a trooper through it all and is still checking out completely healthy with a strong heart beat of 150.

I am getting more and more heartburn due to everything being compressed in my abdomen. Nothing that a few tums can’t fix though!

Cravings? Aversions?

Lucky charms, huge green grapes, fresh fruit and turkey sandwiches. 🙂

Sleep?

Starting to struggle with staying asleep. I wake up anywhere between 2-5 times a night to pee!!! It’s insane! Plus anytime I flip over, I have to sometimes help support the belly so that it doesn’t completely pull on my back.

Belly button? In or out?

It’s still in but definitely become more flat!

Weight gain?

What a complete shock. After losing so much weight the first trimester I naively thought that I wouldn’t even near the 30-35 range by the end. Well, let’s just say I’ll achieve that number like a champ. I’m definitely ready to have my body back and get back into shape (as I’m sure every woman is at this stage!!).

Movement?

Mr. B moves, moves and well…. MOVES!!! He constantly is wiggling and flipping and kicking and has baby hiccups several times a day. I wake up to swift kicks to the bladder every morning and he just goes goes goes! Some of my favorite moments have been with Patrick playing with him by pushing on him and Bennett with kick him square in the face! If anything is resting on my belly, he will try his best to kick it off. He loves to jump on my bladder while I’m at the grocery store and has a fairly predictable routine of when he is awake and asleep.

What’s going on with Mr. B?

Your baby’s about 15.7 inches long now and weighs around 3 pounds (about the size of a large cabbage). A pint and a half of amniotic fluid surrounds him, but that volume will shrink as he gets bigger and takes up more room in your uterus. His eyesight continues to develop, though it’s not very keen; even after he’s born, he’ll keep his eyes closed for a good part of the day. When he does open them, he’ll respond to changes in light but will have 20/400 vision — which means he can only make out objects a few inches from his face. (Normal adult vision is 20/20.)

All things pregnancy:

Well seeing how It’s been a while since I’ve updated this blog (simply because I really hated how it displayed all of my images so small), a ton has happened and changed. I’ll post pictures and captions below. Half of it is written for the general audience, half is written as if Bennett could read this ❤