Baby's sonogram is 3D so I have already started to attribute family characteristics. I think he looks like Kevin's maternal grandfather George plus the Clou nose plus maybe a dash of my maternal grandmother's pout. At least right this second he does. Also, he already has hair. I figured he'd be born with hair, but I'm surprised he already has enough to be visible on a sonogram.
Baby Clou's pouty nap face at 30 weeks and 5 days
Previously, I would wake up at night to change positions, for bathroom trips, or because of trouble breathing or acid reflux. Now I have new reasons to wake up! Leg cramps! And the baby is himself strong enough to kick me awake. Cute but not helpful.
The baby book also says his brain is developing more this week. I wonder if he knows what he's up to...
What I miss the most: Nah, I'm cool.
Craving: Lots of hydration.CEREAL. Salad. Fruit. Red meat. Grape juice. Ice cream without chunks of anything- plain vanilla, plain chocolate, etc.
Anti-craving: Smoke. I know this is not something you consume, but the windows have to be open if Kevin is cooking something because I feel like any cooking smoke is suffocating me.
Symptoms: This probably started a long time ago, subtly, but at this point I am full on waddling all the time. Hot flashes if I leave the apartment. The sonogram technician said that when she was pregnant she had acid reflux that she thought she would die from. I'm not anywhere near that yet, but I'm afraid. The Tums are helping.
Baby-size: Cabbage
Weight gain: I'm up to like 30 pounds. I don't wanna talk about it.
He doesn't even have a beer belly. 30 weeks and 5 days.
It was an eventful week otherwise. Michele came to visit me in Long Island and we had sushi (all cooked for me) and cake while we watched Puppy Bowl. Shut-up, you're jealous. Kevin and I also went to visit mom in her new apartment and took her to dinner at a local Chinese restaurant with an Italian name. Confusing. And after our 30-week sonogram, we celebrated Kevin's 31st birthday with dinner with a few friends (more on that in the next post).
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There's an old wives' tale that says that the more heartburn you have, the more hair the baby will be born with. Maybe this is why you've had so much!
I actually read that this old wives tale was tested. It was shown to have a correlation in a small study.
Interesting! I had a lot of heartburn, and Eleanor had a pretty good head of hair...
And speaking of confusing Chinese food - remember when we ate it in Madrid?!?
Yes, I was just thinking of that the other day when my friend Sarah told me that Indian food in India is a lot like Indian food here. It's not like Chinese food in China.
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