All right, 29 weeks. Hi, guys. Welcome to my pregnancy updates. I am now 29 weeks pregnant.
I'm actually 30 weeks in a couple of days. I'm filming this a little bit late, and 30
weeks sounds really scary compared to 29 weeks because it's literally like you're in the
home stretch. Basically, today I'm going to talk to you about what's happening in the
last week. I'm definitely getting bigger and bigger by the day. I had a midwife appointment
this week, and she said from now on I should on average put on one pound a week, so that's
at least another 10 pounds. I'm already feeling so big.
I'm going to insert a clip here. I filmed a video the other day for Channel Mom, and
I just put on a maxi dress, and I just filmed the video. Then when I went to edit it I had
not realized how huge I looked in that dress and how huge my chest is as well. That was
a bit of an eye-opener because I don't think even I realized how big I am, but I'm really
big. This baby is big. Also, on my pregnancy app, I'm using the Pregnancy + one, and the
BabyCenter one as well. Basically, when you get to 29 weeks it says that the baby is the
size of a winter squash, which is basically like a pumpkin, 15, 17 inches, and could be
as much as 3.8 pounds now. A baby at 29 weeks should look something like this, so really,
really formed. Obviously, the longer he's in there, the better the chance of survival,
but if he was to be born now there is a good chance that he would survive, so that makes
me feel good.
The main things that happened this week are I had a midwife appointment. It was my 28-week
check, but it was just a little bit late. It was all good. It was actually at my local
hospital now, which was a lot easier to get to. Everything was fine, blood pressure was
good. Everything was good. The baby was measuring correctly, and she said that he's already
head down. Hopefully, he won't twist again and hopefully, he'll just stay head down now
for the duration, but he's ready to go. His head wasn't in my pelvis yet, so that's good,
but he's definitely in the right direction.
Most of the appointment, to be honest, consisted of talking about home birth or not home birth.
That was basically because in my notes it said that I would like to consider a home
birth, and there are a few reasons why I'm considering a home birth. I haven't made the
decision yet, and they are, this is obviously my third child. My first baby, I was in labor
for seven hours. It was completely straightforward. I could have had him at home. My second birth
was three hours and was completely straightforward. Our hospital is 45 minutes away, so I'm thinking
if this baby comes any quicker, I might have him in the car or on the road, or something.
Also, because the other two were so straightforward, I didn't really even have pain relief, like
I was really lucky. Why couldn't I have this one at home?
There is a part of me that is finding it really hard to make that decision because on paper
and everything, it should be fine. It should all go to plan. I should have the baby at
home, and that would be amazing. I could get into bed, have a cup of tea, all that stuff.
That's the dream, but it's just really unpredictable. I would never forgive myself if something
did go wrong, and I had made that decision. It's down to me, so it's been really, really
hard, but then some people are like, "Things could go wrong in hospital, and actually,
if you have a baby at home you get two midwives whereas in hospital you might only have one
until the end," and yeah.
It's a really difficult decision. They said I still don't have to completely make that
decision until I'm 35 weeks, so that is when my next appointment is, when I'm 35 weeks
pregnant. I've got another six weeks. I think I am going to go for a home birth because
the midwife that I met with, she was probably the perfect one to meet with because she herself
had four children, and she had the last two at home. She had two in the hospital and two
at home, and everything was fine. She put my mind at rest that if there were any complications
during a birth, she said it's the progression. There is a progression, and if something like
his heart rate was dropping, or anything like that, then I would be rushed to hospital.
She said, "If you needed an emergency cesarean," even if I was having a home birth, I would
get on the operating table as quickly as someone in the hospital would.
I don't know. We will see, but I think I am leaning towards a home birth. I think it would
be a really lovely experience for my last baby. [inaudible 00:05:07] we're thinking
about birth because that is all coming up. I am going to start doing my hypnosis CDs
from next week. In my previous pregnancies, I started listening from week 30. It's only
20 minutes a day, and normally when I go to bed, so I'm definitely going to start doing
that because I feel like it's really helped me. I'll link a video down below that I've
done on hypnobirthing before if you want loads more detail, but I've practiced it, and I
had a really good experience with it.
I've been experiencing loads of movement, and now the movement is really visible where
he's a lot bigger. If I lay on the couch, you'll literally see my stomach go like all
over the place. Mac can see it now as well, so I think he moves the most once I've had
something really sugary and when I'm sitting down. Normally, after dinner if I have something
sweet, and then I lay on the couch it's like he's got the room, and he's had the sugar,
and he's like really, really moving around. That's really nice to see, also, a bit alien
like and scary.
I feel like in a weird way like we're communicating with each other. If I lay on the couch, and
I give him a poke, or a push, he'll poke or push me back. I'll give him a nudge, and then
he'll give me a nudge back. It's really cool. Also, if I bend over I feel him really squirm
where he's squished. I also confirmed my maternity leave with work, so that was good. I always
knew that I wanted work quite far up to the end, but now I'm actually leaving five weeks
before my due date, which I've never done before. With Fraser, I worked until two weeks
before my due date, and with Caleb I worked until my due date, so it's a real treat to
have five weeks before my due date. I just hope he comes on my due date or after because
I could really use these five weeks to try and sort all the rooms, and the house, and
the building. I'm really looking forward to my maternity leave.
Yeah, there's only one new product that I've tried this week that I wanted to tell you
about. I'm not going to show you because they're so ugly, pregnancy spanx because I'm getting
so much bigger. We actually went to a wedding reception this week, so I wore a dress, obviously.
No underwear was looking right with this dress, so I wore pregnancy spanx. They're basically
like really big shorts that go all the way up your thighs and then all the way right
to under your bust. They just hold you in, but obviously there's loads of room for the
bump as well, and it makes your bump look a bit smoother and your belly button look
smoother and stuff. I just got them on ASOS, so if you Google pregnancy spanx you will
be able to find them. They made me feel so much more confident because they held in my
thighs, my bum, my bump, everything. I really recommend them if you have an event or even
not. I could probably wear them to work or something and just feel that bit more held
and also it was quite supportive on my bump, which was really nice as well.
Any way, I think that's all I wanted to tell you about this week. Yeah, thank you so much
for watching. Don't forget to like, comment and subscribe, and I will see you next week
for my 30 weeks. Bye.