Stats in my 30th - 31st week:
Weight: 135 lbs.
Circumference of belly: 37.25" and growing
hmm how big am i going to get? this week my belly has increased 1/4" from last. at that rate, by the end of it all, i will be at 39" - 40". my doc thinks my belly is quite large and is afraid the baby might be big. or she said maybe because he's breech right now, my belly just looks larger than the baby actually is. i'm hoping it's the latter because i'd rather squeeze the baby out than have a c-sect. maybe i just have a lot of amniotic fluid in my belly which makes it look distended. anyway, hopefully the baby will move into the correct position by my 36th week. I can't really tell where his head is. It seems like he keeps moving around in circles. Last week he was sideways, this week he was head on top. He often likes to burrow towards the right side of my belly so instead of having a round basketball belly, it's lopsided to the right. it is the oddest sensation to have something living and moving inside of you.
i went to my first birthing class and they were going over signs of labor, and giving birth..various positions to relieve pain or push...close up videos of babies coming out of vagina...ouch... i am totally scared of going into labor and what the pain may entail. but i want to go all natural if possible. it seems the best way for the baby. or maybe the midwife/teacher just seems to be biased towards that position. if the pain is unbearable, then well..i may change my mind. i just pray i don't go into preterm labor. but you can't worry about all these things. you just need to live and let things unfold on their own. worrying doesn't help matters.
we just celebrated father's day yesterday. it was a beautiful day - perfect weather. we met my parents and sister at the world financial plaza and had lunch by the water. my sis was supposed to work at the financial plaza - there was a bang on the drum music festival there. my parents went off to South Street Seaport - we got them a gift to sail around the hudson on one of those old sail boats. We left and walked around battery park to see if there was a good wedding spot but didn't find anything specific. then we headed back to Brooklyn and walked on 7th avenue. there was a craft fair that started all the way by warren st and ended at 16th st. we wanted to see a friend's booth - she is now selling hand made jewelry - pretty and dainty. i walked from bergen to the end. my feet and back were killing me. if i weren't pregnant, i think my feet and back would still be killing me with all the walking we did. the back pain is pretty prevalent now. if you lie in a certain position and move your legs, or sit the wrong way, you get a shooting pain down your lower back. aack. i bought a body pillow like everyone suggests. i'm not sure if it works any better than my normal pillow between my legs but it is more firm which i suppose is better so it doesn't flatten out. hard to fit two people and a body pillow in a full size bed tho. i feel like one day i will accidently fall out of the bed.
the day before that we went to look at wedding bands at moc's dad's shop. we picked a matching set. waiting to get pricing. so things are slowly but surely moving along.
