31w5d

Here is the unexciting face profile pic from yesterday. I was so pleased with my 2nd dr's ultrasound photo skills! Unfortunately I won't be seeing her again, because she specializes in other things and has passed me on to her colleague.
Everything was in order at my appointment! They estimate that the baby weights 2.84kg or 6.25lbs. I was surprised to hear that, but am not going to fully expect that it will be that big. It was also measuring 5-6 days earlier, but again, I am not going to count on that.Here are some adorable gifts the baby received this week!!!

Prenatale Kinesitherapie/Prena tal Physiotherapy (kinesitherapy)

I started my kinesitherapie sessions yesterday. I am supposed to have 5 before the birth and 9 after. To me it seems normal, since I have heard a lot about it here, but I am not finding much info on it in English or on babyfit.com. Anyone else familiar with this?

Yesterday we learned about our circulation (or lack thereof) and some tips/exercises to help it. The woman also talked about how we should lay down and get back up (always via our side). She gave us exercises to work on our *things I can't remember the Dutch word and don't know the English one*. Basically the point of these sessions is to make the rest of our pregnancy and delivery easier.

What I thought was very interesting and was surprised that I had never heard of it before was Diastasis Recti. We were with about 15 ladies, all 26-34 weeks pregnant and we all had this, so it shows that it is VERY common. I had a '2-finger.'

I had heard from the regular doctor that you shouldn't do stomach exercises (such as sit-ups) during pregnancy, because you can harm the stomach muscles, but I didn't think much about that until now. If you try to do the wrong sort of exercises, you can strengthen the muscles that have pulled apart. If you do those exercises after birth before the separation has pulled/grown together, they will never fully come together and that causes the pudgy belly look which doesn't go away.

I was so glad I learned that, because I was already thinking about what stomach exercises I would do after the birth, but I don't want to be making the problem worse! I am glad I have the 9 sessions with the kinesitherapist after birth to help those muscles grow back together, then they will advise of the next steps to follow.

30+ Weeks

I am so glad to be on maternity leave! Everything seems to take more effort this week and I have been quite tired. I hope to get the house spic-n-span by Friday, because Monday our wave of visitors begins. The following Monday we head to Switzerland for 7-10 days to RELAX!

http://www.indiacurry.com/women/pregcalc.htm This site made me feel better! I am perfectly average and on track for a 30 pound gain (I guess that is more realistic than a 25). It is true what I heard, I just went through a 'growth spurt' period! The average gain/week for the past month was 2.something/week and now it is back down to 1.6ish...

29.5 weeks

Today: May 10th, feeling like I've gained too much weight the past week! Hoping it's just a 'growth spurt.' DONE work since yesterday! Wearing my favorite outfit.

First free day I sewed a skirt (without pattern) to try to look like my favorite one and hopefully be as comfortable...quite pleased with the result.

Belgium makes Top 10

http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6748295/k.BE47/State_of_the_Worlds_Mothers_2011_Statistics_and_Facts.htm

Long time no post...

Here I am at nearly 29 weeks feeling mostly pretty good! My last day of work is Monday and I am looking forward for that. I decided this is one instance where I will allow myself to "be a wimp." Normally I would say, "I can do this, I can hold out." But nope. Not this time. Not worth it. ESPECIALLY not when I get paid nearly 100% for being at home. The last week of work has been quite tiring. After 2 hours I am worn out. My stomach starts hurting from all the bending. From tomorrow on I go with my replacement and she gets to do the hard stuff (furniture moving, living up chairs, mopping).

I am just worried that I won't be moving around enough when I stop and that I'll gain extra weight. I know I shouldn't be worried about that, but I just want to keep it under control and this past week I have had a harder time eating healthy. Hopefully the weather will hold out and I can go walking and biking. On Easter Monday I biked 23km! I was very proud of myself! Only my tushie was sore from the seat, but nothing else!

We finished cleaning up the office last week, so now it is ready for the baby! I would like to add some more decorations, but that isn't essential. We are supposed to get a 2nd crib from my other SIL :P I figure our room is big enough, so why not have one in there as well?

I can't remember if I posted that the dr had me do an extra test for some kind of infection...well, I never got a call from the lab, so I'm assuming everything was ok with that and my glucose test!

I am not sure if I ever said it, but I don't plan to find out what I am having...the hubby would like to, but I want this one to be a surprise! I kind of have a feeling that it is a boy. First, because my husband watched the ultrasound where the screen was turned from me, so he thinks he saw something. Secondly, our 3 couples friends all had/are having a girl, so I figure 4/4 is too great of odds ;P

OH! I think we FINALLY have names! This was something major for us! Funny thing was both were suggestions from people. The girl name was suggested by 2 different people (they don't yet know that we liked it...) and the boy name was suggested, but I had already seen it and liked it and was trying to warm the hubby up to the idea.

Ok, long enough update (aka enough procrastinating).