This week marks a big event - our baby boy is now 30 weeks! People who feel my belly comment on how much he moves around, and I'm wondering if that means he'll be a light sleeper. If he's up at 3 am moving around now, why would anything change once he's born? We're both getting pretty anxious to meet him, but we're definitely not encouraging him to come out any sooner than he's supposed to!
Above is an updated picture of "The Belly." Did you notice the Russian nesting doll with Tom Brady and other assorted Patriots players in the upper right hand corner of the picture? Did you notice the Patriots are now 5-0? Remember, there's no such thing as coincidence...
We went to Babies R Us this weekend to start picking out items to put on our registry. We picked out a stroller from Maclaren that we've seen around the city a lot. Jonathan likes it because he doesn't hit his long legs on the wheels as he walks. The store has a personal scanner they give to you when you start your registry so that you can walk around the store scanning items you want to add to the list. Jonathan started scanning random items simply because he wanted to use the "laser" as he called it, so I threatened to scan a baby Yankees outfit and then tell everyone in my family that he's trying to raise our boy a Yankees fan. That was all he had to hear. Quick-thinking mom: 1 Gadget-loving papa: 0
We also went to the doctor today for our 30 week check-up. I had been going to the doctor once a month, but between now and 36 weeks I'll go every 2 weeks. (Then from 36 weeks on it's every week.) My belly measured exactly 30 centimeters to the top of my uterus, which is right on par for how big the baby should be. She also measured his heart beat, which clocked in at 130-140 beats per minute. (Anything from 120-160 is normal.) So far, so good!
I'm still running, and now I'm doing capoeira once a week. Last year my capoeira professor came to my high school to hold a class for the teachers on Tuesday afternoons, and he's continuing that this year. Last week I did a cartwheel (slowly and controllably, thank you) for the first time, and the baby started moving around. I took that as a sign that he liked it, so I did a few more. I talked to my mom later on, and she recommended that I not do cartwheels because the baby may be in the correct birthing position and I don't want to disturb him. When I told that to Jonathan he said, "Does that mean if we're in the birthing center and the doctor says the baby is breech, you should start doing cartwheels to encourage him to flip the other way?" My mom (and everyone else in the world) would probably say no, but I thought it was a creative idea!
4 comments:
You look very prosperous! We are enjoying the company of your parents right now. Say hello to Jonathan and if you see Christine, for us!
Love,
Uncle Scott, Aunt Glenda, Elizabeth, and Rebecca
wow, I am so impressed that you are still running!! Good for you. And I am more than impressed by the cartwheel- whoa. Listen to that mom of yours!
This is what your baby was doing while you were doing the cartwheel:
http://www.burningpixel.com/Baby/Babygif.htm
It's also what he does when you play Mr. Blue Sky, when the Patriots score a touchdown, or anytime his Aunt Merin comes into the room. :)
we're glad to you that you has not thrown to run. Ussually our pregnant kazakh women a lot of moves. Example: cleaning the house, washing, cooking and so on. A lot of moves a good for them, when they will be to give rise and it will be easy to them to give rise. So we think that it will be good for you too.
love,
Aiman and Albina
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