30 - relaxing, kind of

Week 30 - Mar 6 - Mar 12

Your baby's the size of a cucumber!

Your 15.2- to 16.7-inch, 2.5- to 3.8-pound baby continues to grow.

your baby at 30 weeks

• Her skin is getting smoother.
• But her brain is getting wrinklier -- to make way for all that essential brain tissue.
• She's now strong enough to grasp a finger!

After the craziness that was week 29, week 30 was rather uneventful and relaxing. We had our 30 Week appointment and everything was "normal" again. Your heart rate was somewhere in the mid-140s. Pretty exciting that our appointments have started to get closer together now!!

I have had lots of "Charley Horse" cramps in my life (both before I was pregnant, and since I've been pregnant), but this Friday I woke up in the middle of the night with the mother of all leg cramps. It was absolutely awful and sent terrible pains through not only the back of my calf, but also the front of my SHIN!! I literally woke up screaming and didn't even realize I was screaming, it was so painful. Your sweet Daddy sat by my feet and moved my foot back and forth in an effort to relieve the cramps. The next day I bought the biggest bundle of bananas I could find at the grocery store and started chowing down. Hoping to get past these ASAP! Luckily, on Saturday I had a prenatal massage scheduled - ahhhh. Aside from the outrageous leg cramps, this week was very calm and relaxing. We needed the break! And I was able to get most of the fabric cut for your nursery bedding - FINALLY! Stay tuned for that...

30 weeks - Wait, did we just pass the 20s already!?