I'm 30 weeks pregnant!!!! YAYYYYYY!!!!!!! I honestly love watching that ticker move up every week on the top of the page. It's crazy that in just 7 weeks, I will be considered full term!

It's getting so close

We had our sonogram today at LIJ and Brianna just didn't want to cooperate, so we couldn't get a good picture of her  .. she wants to keep us in suspense I guess. All we even saw was the back/top of her head and her body. So, we didn't even get any pics printed out to bring home with us.

She is sure getting big! Doctor said she weighs 3 pounds 3 ounces, and is maybe a few days ahead of schedule but that she is measuring perfectly.

Doctor also told me to just get more rest, try not to be stressed and drink more fluids, because my amniotic fluid looked a tiny bit low. Then I go back in 2 weeks and have another sonogram, so hopefully Brianna will be in a different position and we can see her little face!!!!!

Just wanted to update quickly and write that everything is going well. Things are getting difficult though; I'm so tired all the time & having pretty severe rib pain caused from her moving and putting pressure on the lungs. Oh, and you should never take shaving your legs or putting on shoes & socks for granted! I can't believe I only have about 10 more weeks left and this little precious babygirl will be here. Lamaze classes start in a few weeks, and I'm going to have sonograms done bi-weekly and then going to weekly to monitor Brianna's growth. Almost 2 weeks ago, she was measuring in at 2 pounds 10 ounces!

Wednesday is a sonogram up at LIJ - we're going to ask the doctor to press the 3D button so we can really see what she looks like! We haven't had a good sonogram since I was 19 weeks pregnant, and now I'm almost 30 weeks so she should really be looking different!

 I'm sooooooooo excited!

So today was a bit scary... I hadn't felt Brianna move at all in 24 hours, so I woke up and called my doctor, as I was told to do if that ever happens. Her secretary called me right back and said that my doctor said to go right to LIJ and go to Labor & Delivery. Kenny was at work & the operator at his job said she couldn't get a hold of him, so I went up with my Dad since he was home (Kenny ended up meeting me there & my Dad went to work). I heard her heartbeat right away when we got there, and then Kenny & I just waited to be seen. They hooked me up to this fetal heart monitor, which was placed on my belly with straps (think of a seatbelt around your abdomen)... well obviously Brianna didn't like the pressure of that, because she started kicking like CRAZY - I counted about 25 kicks in 40 mins. So everything with her movement is okay....

On the sonogram, it showed that I have an anterior placenta, which means that the placenta is in front of the baby (the placenta is either in front or behind the baby), and it is acting like a cushion between her kicks and me, which is why I am not feeling much of her movements anymore. This poses no harm at all to Brianna, but just means I have to pay a little extra attention to feel movement sometimes. I feel her right now as I type this, which is cool.

I also found out that she is still in breech position, and that she is measuring in at 27 weeks 5 days... instead of the 26 weeks 5 days I am supposedly at right now. She also weighs 2 pounds 10 ounces, and most babies are usually just reaching 2 pounds at this point. So I might be a week further along than I think I am, which I don't mind at all!!!!!!!!!

Maybe my due date (right now it's June 1st) will be moved up a week... I sure hope so!!

I have come to the realization, that being pregnant is almost one year pretty much filled with nothing but stress, worrying, pain & aggrivation. Of course there are happy times, but those are few and far between.

I HATE BEING PREGNANT... but I keep trying to remind myself that this will ALL be worth it when I have my daughter in my arms