Baby’s Milestones: Baby is about 21 inches tall and 7 pounds this week. Baby is busy getting ready for his arrival by shedding vernix and lanugo into the amniotic fluid which he is swallowing. His lungs continue to mature as more and more surfactant is secreted (this prevents the lungs from sticking together when the baby starts to breathe).
My Weight: 175.2 (I'm up 4 more pounds! Either Hudson has had a huge growth spurt or I am suddenly packing on the pounds! Either way after watching the scale crawl up so slowly my entire pregnancy, seeing these huge number increases is scary!!!)
Symptoms: I still have rib pain, back pain, groin and hip pain. I think my hips are expanding and a couple of nights while sleeping my hips were popping every time I moved. I have had some slight cramping since I stopped taking my medicine, but that is about it. I also discovered some stretch marks! :( I found my first stretch mark on my butt the day of my 1st shower. Now I have quite a few on my butt and hips. I cried a bit when I saw them, but I'm sure Hudson will be worth it. I had a Dr. appointment at 38w1d. My doctor did a cervix check and said I'm only about a fingertip dilated. She also said Hudson was lower, but still not super low so she doesn't expect me to have him in the next week. We also had an ultrasound where we discovered that our average sized 31 week old baby is now huge! She estimated that he weighs 8lbs. 7oz. already! She also guessed that he will be 23 inches at birth. His head circumference (HC) was measuring at 39 weeks. His side to side head measurement (BPD) was measuring at 40 weeks. His stomach circumference (AC) was measuring 38 weeks 3 days so she said he is skinny. His femur length (FL) was measuring 40 weeks 6 days!! Thus the long length estimate. His average measurements put him at 40 weeks 2 days!! Yikes!! When you look at how tall Nic and I are and how much more we weigh than short people because we are so tall, we obviously somewhat expected this, but he definitely sounds bigger than I imagined and it kind of freaked me out. I was hoping for a 71/2 pound (which in our world is tiny) little guy or at the max a low 8 pound baby. Nic was 8lbs. 3 oz. and I was 8lbs. 1 oz. so I figured since I have stayed so small this whole pregnancy and Hudson has always measured exactly on or average that at the biggest he would be 8lbs. 4 oz. I also saw that one of the measurements estimated his due date to be 07/27. When I asked the ultrasound technician which one it was she immediately started beating around the bush. I knew immediately it must be his head measurement!! The worst measurement to be big. I don't mind if he is really long and weighs more because of that, but a big head is very frightening to me! Then in an attempt to make me feel better she said well his head circumference isn't that big, just his head side to side! Really? That is supposed to make me feel better?!! The only thing I can hope for now is that my ultrasound is one of the ones that falls into the "could be 15% off" category and he is actually smaller than the ultrasound showed. Of course, it could also be 15% off in the other direction which means a c-section would for sure be in my future!! When my doctor felt me she confirmed that he does feel like an 8lb. baby already and thinks he will be at least 9 lbs. if I go to 40 weeks! Yikes! So not what I wanted to hear.
Cravings: I've been really craving sweets.
TP: 11
Measurements: Waist: 40 Below Belly Button: 41
Emotions: I have had a few more grumpy moments. On Tuesday night we went to BRU to complete our registry and on the way I could already feel I was reaching my breaking point. I had been into work that day, which was quite stressful and I was feeling very overwhelmed and unprepared. The first two items on our list were out of stock so I did one of those exaggerated sighs and Nic made a comment about me being so grumpy and asked if I could try to just enjoy the experience. I immediately felt guilty for being cranky and complaining and burst into tears in the middle of the aisle. I am at that point where occasionally the negative emotions kind of just take over and it feels out of my control. I feel bad because I've been pretty pleasant and good-spirited most of the pregnancy and know that when the moodiness sneaks up on me it isn't fair to Nic and upsets me too because that isn't the person I want to be.
Feeling the Baby: I'm still feeling Hudson a ton. He especially moved a bunch at the Aerosmith concert!
hang in there mama! you're almost at the finish line! if it makes you feel any better about the size, when i went into labor and they first measured me, they said leah was about 8 lbs. i was like what?! she was always measuring on the small side! she came out 6 lbs 12 oz! pretty big difference! so hopefully hudson stays with what he's normally been measuring.
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