29 Weeks

The other day I felt a rhythmic boop, boop, boop, from baby. It was really down low and I couldn't work out what it was for a while. Then it clicked! Hiccups! Since then he's had hiccups once or twice a day. I've felt them once from the outside, but most of the time it feels like my cervix or vagina has the hiccups (way tmi I know, but well, this whole baby/baby making business is always going to be tmi)

At my OB appointment last week he was still head down. The little movements I've been feeling by my belly button are knees and the lumps I feel up under my ribs switch between his bottom and his feet. His bottom feels like a big lump and I often feel it roll on my right side. Feet are different movements, they're little boops and look like my stomach is twitching, usually on my right side too but he spins from side to side a fair bit. It is so amazing to be watching him on the ultrasound and feeling the movements at the same time.

He still likes to hide from Tony. He'll be moving so much, then Tony will put his hand on my stomach and he goes all quiet and stops.

We're still not going any where with names. Our list of names changes each time we talk about it.

I stepped on the scales and I'm not at my heaviest weight ever. It's the same weight I was in my last year of uni, except my face isn't as chubby as it was back then. OH, and my ribs have expanded that much that my bra size has changed again. The band size has gone up but the cup size has gone down. That made me cry.

Other things that made me cry? Not being able to find a cute maternity dress for my baby shower next week. (I've ordered a few online and have sent a few back. Waiting on yet another lot from Asos) Not being able to wear my cute shoes any more (hello swollen feet!) and not being able to just jump in the car and run errands.

But there's been lots of good things too. No gestational diabetes and I'm now down to fortnightly OB appointments. Mum is coming with me to the one next week, she's been waiting for this since the start of my pregnancy. She's even taking a half day from work to come down for it, that in itself is huge! Tony has started painting the nursery, it needs one more coat of paint and then to do the door. AND (this is big for me) I met up with a friend from one of my online due date groups. I'm really quite shy and the big meet ups were a bit intimidating. But she lives in the same area as I do, so we met up at a cafe (Max Brenner! Yum!) and it was great. She worked as a teacher before having her first baby and she's an ivf mumma too.

Next week is my baby shower, we sent the invites out the other week. Thank goodness for etsy, it has made baby shower planning so much easier, I just bought the games, cupcake toppers and invites then printed them.

And next week we have our first birthing class too. It's all happening now! Things are starting to get busy and it'll be no time before he's here!