29 Week Update

How far along? 29 weeks (The size of a Butternut Squash.  About 17 inches and about 3.1 pounds.)

Total weight gain/loss: +19 lbs(ish.  We lost our scale in the move and I haven't been back to the Dr.)
 
Maternity clothes:Yep.
 
Have you told family and friends?  Everybody knows now :)

Have you started to show yet? Yep. My stomach gets into a room approximately three seconds before the rest of me does. So, yes.

Sleep:  Between fighting a head cold and the worst pain in my back I have ever even thought about feeling there is has been very little sleep for me or for sweet Matt.

Best moment this week:For Christmas we gave our parents the 4D Ultrasound pictures and watched the "movie" with all of our family.  Getting to see their faces as they saw her little face (and arms and CUTE little legs!) took the cake for me this week!

Miss Anything? A few weeks ago when I couldn't think of any complaints to type in "Symptoms"  ;)

Movement: I feel her everyday, mostly at night.  Occasionally I will feel her during the day but I am pretty sure it's just because she moves a lot in her sleep like her mom used to when she slept!

Food cravings: Pretty much all food.  I have NO will power!  However, I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the little clementine mandarin oranges!  In fact, M wrapped up a 5lb bag of them and gave them to me for Christmas! 

Anything making you queasy or sick? Overeating.  Once I get anywhere past hungry I need to stop because there isn't much space these days between 'I'm hungry' and 'I overate and feel sick'. <---- Still that!

Gender prediction: GIRL.  According to the sonogram the Chinese Gender Calender and every single old wives tale was WRONG!  (Refer to my earlier posts!)

Labor Signs: Nope.

Symptoms: The back pain has not let up much and all indications are that it won't for another ten weeks or so.  It is definitely worse when I am sitting so I take A LOT of stand up breaks.  Church is kind of the worse right now because you can't exactly get up and crawl over people just to stand up for a couple of minutes.  The other thing that is killer right now is the heartburn.  Good. Grief.  Last night was the first night in a week that I didn't have to wake up and blow my nose but the stupid heartburn woke me up.  It's a little easier to tolerate now knowing she has a head full of hair ;)

So, between the move, the holidays, the house renovations, etc. I realize that it has been ten weeks since I posted a picture.  I have good news and I have bad news.  The good news is that I finally have a picture.  The bad news is that I don't know where my cute little chalkboard is packed away at, I haven't been able to get dressed and be in the same room with M at home long enough to take a new one so maybe this streaky mirror, messy bathroom counter top, selfie will motivate me to do better next week.  Anyway, in all of it's non-glory here is my picture on the first day of my 30th week!

I still have no idea why all of my pictures are now loading sideways or how to correct it but you get the idea.