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My 31st week baby bump story

31st week

How far along: 30 weeks 6 days
How much do I weigh: 56,8 kg (+ 8 kg)
Belly size: Growing and growing 🙂

Baby Bump Week 31 - 30w6d — Baby Bump Week 31 – 30w6d

Belly button in or out: In / Even
Sleep: I get up once a night at mostly the same time, 3:00 am
Food (non) cravings: pickles
Symptoms: sometimes lower back pain
Maternity clothes: always
Stretch marks: none
~~Miss anything~~ Things I don’t miss:

Getting my period each month and bleeding 7+ days
Getting pretty bad PMS each month
To make my belly look slim after I’ve eaten a big meal

Looking forward to: Seeing the stroller we bought. We have never seen it live before as it’s a new model, first coming to the stores in 2015. We ordered on Wednesday because we were told it can take up to eight weeks for it to come and well on Friday (so two days later) we get a call from the store – our stroller is already there 🙂
Best happenings this week: This last week was quite busy

Monday: Met with the doctor who will be delivering our baby.
Tuesday 4pm: Visited the nursery next door. We were four moms and one dad at the information-afternoon that day. The manager told us all about the nursery and then we all registered our (born) little babies. We’ll get informed sometime in April / May if we get a place for the time we wished for. I registered our little baby-boy for March 2016.
Tuesday 5:30pm: Had my first prenatal course. We are 16 women! It was good, quite long I thought but it’s nice to be with a midwife and 15 pregnant women and just talk about pregnancies, babies and the birth.
Wednesday: We ordered a stroller and a car-seat
Thursday: Went to the gym
Friday: Had an OB appointment. Little peanut didn’t show us his face but he’s 1,5kg and everything is just fine. He’s got 7cm big feet! My cervical length is a bit reduced so the doctor wants me to take my maternity leave two weeks earlier than planned, which means that starting tomorrow I’ll be working my last week!! I’m not allowed to go to the gym for two weeks and I should not have s*e*x (bummer 😉 ) the next two weeks

Movement: A lot, yes 🙂 Mostly his back is laying on the left side of my uterus and he’s kicking the right side of my body.
Gender: He showed us his genitals very nicely on Friday. Two big balls, one little thingy in the middle.
Happy or moody most of the time: Happy
Sports: I went to the gym twice this week but have to stop for the next two weeks. I can go for walks though, let’s see if I’ll do that.

My 30th week baby bump story

30th week

How far along: 29 weeks 6 days
How much do I weigh: 56 kg (+ 7,2 kg / 15.8 pounds)
Belly size: Growing

Baby Bump Week 30 - 29w6d — Baby Bump Week 30 – 29w6d

Belly button in or out: In
Sleep: I can’t complain. Baby-Boy Bruno mostly goes to bed the same time I do so it’s quite in there 😉 Sometimes I get up once in the middle of the night, sometimes not. I really can’t complain.
Food (non) cravings: Nothing special
Symptoms: Can’t complain here either. None really. When I lay too long on one side I feel like my hip is falling asleep and feels really uncomfortable which reminds me of bedsore 🙁
Maternity clothes: Yes please
Stretch marks: None
Miss anything: I miss to have more space in our apartment. I need to get rid of some plants – too much!
Looking forward to:

My next OB appointment in five days.
Buying the last big things we need – a stroller, a dryer, a diaper garbage can.

Best happenings this week: Nothing really exciting and worth mentioning happened.
Movement: Lots. As Bruno is getting bigger each day/week I feel lots more going on. His kicking/slapping/turning/hitting isn’t uncomfortable yet so I’m lucky.
Gender: Baby-Boy
Happy or moody most of the time: Happy
Sports: Walks

My 29th week baby bump story

29th week

How far along: 28 weeks 6 days
How much do I weigh: 55,8 kg (+ 7 kg) I know I’ll scratch the 60 kg but I hope not to go over. We’ll see. The babe will gain 2 – 2,5 kg for sure and something in my body will probably gain as well, probably the fat! The amniotic fluid isn’t getting more, I read that, I’m not sure about my uterus. My boobs might still get bigger.
Belly size:

Baby Bump Week 29 - 28w6d — Baby Bump Week 29 – 28w6d

Belly button in or out: Half half, still more in though
Sleep: Quite good. At the moment I don’t have to run to the bathroom when I wake up, I just wake up and lay awake for some time, but not every night.
Food (non) cravings: Meat
Symptoms: I’m becoming a stick-in-the-mud more and more. Even to just turn from one side to the other side in bed seems like an effort. I’m happy for my UGGS.
Maternity clothes: I got some new tops from a friend, some warm pullovers. Bought one new pullover at H&M in size S which kinda looks like a sack but I’m pretty sure it will fit me in March as well. Seeing I don’t want to spend a lot in maternity clothes I’m ok with not feeling too good in the clothes I’m wearing, but they’re not that bad either.
Stretch marks: Nope 🙂
Miss anything: Every week I think of something I might miss but really, this whole pregnancy till now I haven’t really missed anything. It’s a different lifestyle, it’s temporary and I’ve been adapting myself to it. Of course I prefer my power workouts where I come out of the gym-room all sweaty but I’ll be able to hopefully do that a few weeks/months after my birth. I’ve got different priorities now like not getting my heart-rate up too high so I’m ok with my current lifestyle. As long as our baby is doing fine I’m doing more than fine.
Looking forward to: Buying a dryer
Best happenings this week:

Well, we bought a new TV which wasn’t expensive but is quite big (40”). Watching Homeland, the Big Bang Theory and different documentaries on the “big screen” is really quite a pleasure (we watched them on a 13” laptop before). Plus now we can finally listen to music and not only on the laptop! I love listening to music 🙂
It snowed – lots! Sooooo pretty. Now it’s raining again and way too warm so the snow is melting again. It was nice as long as we had it.
Bought another cute outfit for Baby-Boy Bruno

Movement: <3 <3 <3 Gender: Baby-Boy Bruno (in-uterus name 🙂 )
Happy or moody most of the time: Happy
Sports: *cough* still on my Christmas vacation and enjoying doing nothing at the moment.

My 28th week baby bump story

28th week

How far along: 27 weeks 6 days
How much do I weigh: 54,8 kg (+6 kg) different scale than usual
Belly size: Nice and big

Baby Bump Week 28 - 27w6d — Baby Bump Week 28 – 27w6d

Belly button in or out: Still in, kinda, kinda even maybe
Sleep: Not so good this past week, probably because of all the Christmas excitement haha
Food (non) cravings: nothing special
Symptoms: Can’t sleep that good at the moment and I got my linea negra
Maternity clothes: As usual, my dad gave me some sweatshirts to wear for the next months as well (seeing my boyfriend has a size XL or XXL which I am NOT wearing as a 5 feet 3 inch person)
Stretch marks: None
Miss anything: Alcohol! Alcohol to be merry 😉
Looking forward to: Still having lots of vacation! Sleeping in! Just doing nothing and relaxing before busy January starts
Best happenings this week: The beginning of my vacation.
Movement: Daily!
Gender: Baby Boy
Happy or moody most of the time: Happy
Sports: It’s Christmas time so…. I’m on Holiday 🙂

My 27th week baby bump story

27th week

How far along: 26 weeks 6 days
How much do I weigh: 55,7 kg (+ 6,9 kg)
Belly size: At times I gain 1 kg a week. Unbelievable how rapid weight gain can go!

Baby Bump Week 27 - 26w6d — Baby Bump Week 27 – 26w6d

Belly button in or out: In
Sleep: Sometimes I sleep until the alarm goes off, sometimes I get up once, sometimes I can’t get to sleep too good anymore after I got up once. The whole program, but I can’t complain.
Food (non) cravings: Nothing special
Symptoms: None actually
Maternity clothes: Pants and some tops
Stretch marks: None, and no linea nigra
Miss anything: I missed drinking alcohol at the company’s Christmas Party 🙂 It started at 3pm yet I survived until about 10pm without it. I guess I was high from all the sugar in the non-alcoholic punch. But of course it’s always nice to chat with the co-workers, especially in a company where everybody gets along quite well with each other.
Looking forward to: Enjoying my Christmas Vacation
Best happenings this week:

Going to the OB and hearing that everything is just fine with the baby
I made a carbohydrate loading test for diabetes and all is good, I don’t have pregnancy diabetes
I had a CTG (cardiotocograph) done, baby’s heartbeat is jut fine and I don’t have contractions
My cervix is 4,3cm long – all fine, my ph-value is fine too
My iron value is fine
Baby is lying with his head down (which can always change of course, let’s hope he’s lazy)
Baby boy weighs around 980g
My blood pressure was a bit low

26w5d — Baby Boy and the umbilical cord at 26 weeks, 5 days

Movement: Daily <3, mainly he's kicking/boxing/whatever on my right side. My placenta is on the front wall left so maybe that's the reason - he knows the food etc. is coming from the left side so he's scared to kick against it 🙂 While having a french class in the evening last Monday he kicked me in such a weird place I almost jumped out of my seat and screamed out Jesus! Gender: Baby Boy
Happy or moody most of the time: Happy and never moody 😉
Sports: Not so much this week, too busy

My 26th week baby bump story

26th week

How far along: 25 weeks 5 days
How much do I weigh: 54,8 kg (+6 kg) Are my pink pants getting tighter? I think so… thighs are getting fatter 🙁
Belly size: Circumference 92cm, Top to Bottom 32 cm

Baby Bump Week 26 - 25w5d — Baby Bump Week 26 – 25w5d

Belly button in or out: In
Sleep: Getting up once
Food (non) cravings: Bavarian Pretzels
Symptoms: Calf cramps at night after the gym (once) and some lower back pain sometimes
Maternity clothes: Jeans, my regular tops are getting tighter each week too though
Stretch marks: None yet
Miss anything: Glühwein (Mulled wine) maybe a tiny bit, but the non alcoholic punch is just as good
Looking forward to: My Christmas vacation! Soon! Seeing Baby-Boy-Bruno in five days again, maybe?
Best happenings this week:

Looked at hospital #5 on Thursday and we both liked it, so I guess I have my two hospitals I’m going to register. I’m happy.
Went to a yummy Mexican restaurant which tasted just like in Mexico (or Texas).
Got a bunch of Baby stuff (clothes, toys, shoes) from friends, I’ll have lots to do during my Christmas vacation with sorting out the things I want and things I don’t want/need.

Movement: Daily
Gender: Baby Boy
Happy or moody most of the time: Happy
Sports: As I was gone this weekend I only went to the gym once. Otherwise the regular 30 Minute walk during lunch and my bike ride / walk to work and back.