Week 31!

This last week flew by very fast! At this point Guppy has almost reached the length she will be at birth, and will still need to gain 3-5 more pounds, the big growth spurt starts soon!  And talking about weight, the placenta has stopped growing any bigger and is now just over 1 lb.

Photo from Pregnology.com

She is still moving a LOT especially at night, or when I'm laying down, although if you want to feel you have to be patient, because when someone other than mom puts a hand on the belly she just freezes.  Some pregnancy resources say that I will feel movement less but I laugh at that, my little ninja/star soccer player/ballerina/runway model is still kicking away and it's getting stronger and stronger....

One of the other things that has started this past week are the Braxton-Hicks contractions.  The Dr. asked me about them during our appointment on Monday and at that point I had only had one that I noticed...and then Wednesday I felt/noticed like 8 or 9, all day, not all in a row.

In the coming weeks I will start to make a list of the items that need to be in the hospital bag...who am I kidding, I'm sure here in the next week I will have the bag just flat out packed and ready to go...one of the "bonuses" of being me and not wanting to leave everything to last minute...