Baby T should be able to see light so they suggest putting a flashlight on your belly to see if baby moves around. I haven't done this because I only feel her big movements and occasionally I feel some of her smaller movements.
I am sure Baby T is over a pound by now. How sweet, my baby girl is growing, growing, growing. She is also roughly a foot long now. Wow!
Baby T is working on gripping and grabbing things in utero this week. She is likely gripping the umbilical cord nice and tight, good thing it's so strong! We will see her in a week from today.
Foot Growth - A few weeks ago I noticed my feet were very loose and growing quickly in size. My feet are getting wider now, too. My shoes hurt my feet and I got my boots stuck on them last week. After we had spent the day out shopping, my feet had swelled and could not come out of the boot with all my strength. I had to have my husband help me tear the boots off my feet. It was painful and frustrating. I couldn't reach my boots over my belly. I now know that I have to be careful of what shoes I try to fit into these days. I think my tennis shoes will still fit as they are roomy. I am just waiting for our remaining snow to melt to switch into my tennis shoes until birth. We are in the 40s consistently these days; I am waiting for the 50 degree weather. It is due to start next Monday and I plan to start outdoor exercising then, hopefully my husband will join me for walks.
I am obsessed with my belly, I can tell that I have a baby girl in there. But people have still commented that I am so small. I am mighty round, if you ask me. And I can feel Baby T moving about.
Heartburn & Indigestion - No, but I am constantly burping and bloated, which is terrible.
Faintness & Dizziness - Yes, I am dizzy frequently, which led to me spending today in triage to make sure preeclampsia was not starting.
Protruding Navel - I do not have a protruding navel yet. I don't know if I will get one. I don't believe that I will; I am not so thin.
Braxton-Hicks - This is another sensation I am actually quite nervous to experience. I don't think I am having them yet, though I do question it because I have a tight sensation at night. But at night is when my bloating and gas become the worst. And this is the time Baby T is most active and I can feel her kicking and switching situations. So I am struggling to pinpoint anything happening in my body. Here I thought I was so in-tune with my body I now see I am not so much. I felt implantation.
Workouts - I am still doing yoga and barre daily. I am unsure if they cause my additional pelvic pain.
Save on Healthy Eating - My husband and I buy mainly from Costco or Aldi to help save expenses of groceries.
Breathing - Now is a time that a lot of mom's get anxiety, I am a highly anxious lady who has been anxious since I wanted to conceive. I do practice meditation on top of my yoga and barre daily to deal with my anxiety. I think my anxiety is raising again though, as today was spent in triage, for high blood pressure.
After a 3 hour stay in triage, I was sent home and told to discuss blood pressure medication with my MFM next week.
Baby T was all over the place while they had me all hooked up to monitors and they said, "oh you have a very happy baby in there." Yes I do, thank God I somehow do something right and she doesn't seem to experience the stress that I feel.
Her first movements were VERY aggressive, I spent a long time looking into what those first kicks feel like before deciding that I thought that is what I was feeling. Because I was waiting for these "flutters" and the first movements were like literal kicks. Now I can feel some of those flutters, but I am rarely in tune with them.
Now I am just dealing with a MAJOR headache.
I think this will be the week that I have to remove my wedding rings.
I am very sad to remove them, but I don't want to have them cut off.
We send out invitations for our virtual baby shower this week and really struggled with the wording for the baby registry, yes gifts would be lovely but what I really want is to see my loved ones.
This pregnancy has been very isolating with Covid.
My husband is a little perturbed because we spent the day in triage, so now he has hours and hours of work to catch up on. I should have drivenmyself, but I did not know what triage actually was before today. And as I was leaving, they said they would not be surprised to see me a few times before I actually give birth, I agree.
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