Did I Feel My Baby Have A GROWTH SPURT？？ ⧸⧸ 29 Week PREGNANCY Update + Belly Shot!
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In this episode, I talk about how I m feeling in the third trimester and where the baby is at in his development. I also talk about the growth spurt I ve been experiencing in the past few weeks.
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Hello Classic Crew and welcome to today's video where we're going to be doing my 28-week pregnancy
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update. So it's officially the third trimester and I am so excited and I'm so grateful and I'm
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really looking forward to sharing all of my symptoms with you guys, giving you my pregnancy
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update. These are always fun to make and share with you guys kind of where I'm at and hearing
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where you guys are at, if you're pregnant or if you've been pregnant, hearing your thoughts. But
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really exciting and I'm really excited to share with you guys all about where I'm at now. So I'm just
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getting into the third trimester and that is just such a blessing. So let's get into today's video.
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So first of all, this is what my bump looks like. I'm going to kind of insert a clip here of what it
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looks like. It feels so big to me. I'm sure it's going to feel not big at all in a few weeks,
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but it is so fun to like have a bump, not wonder whether it's bloating or anything else. It is just
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this is the bump and you can definitely know that the baby's in there because I feel him move
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all the time and it is the best thing ever. Like it lives up to the hype. Baby kicks live up to the
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hype. It's just the best thing and I'm going to get more into that. But before we continue, I want
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to tell you where the baby is at in his development. So first of all, this is my Pregnancy Plus app
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and this is what he is looking like right now. This is a diagram of him.
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As you can see, sorry, I know it's getting weird lines across it. I don't know why it does that, but
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it really is an incredible, incredible thing. According to my Pregnancy Plus app, he's 15.2 inches
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and 2.54 pounds, which is crazy. He's two and a half pounds already. But this is the description
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of where he's at developmentally. The baby weighs about two and a half pounds. Your baby's brain is
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now in charge of maintaining body temperature and also controls breathing. Your baby's eyes can now
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respond to light. All the internal organs are maturing and preparing to function on their
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own at birth. You may even feel your baby cough. Your baby's skin is beginning to look less wrinkly
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and more like it will look at birth. The extra fat under the skin will help to regulate the body
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temperature at birth. Your baby's head is much more proportionate to the rest of the body.
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Your baby is bursting with energy at this point and you'll be feeling every bit of it.
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Well, that is very accurate to what I have been feeling. So I want to start off by talking
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about when I feel like I felt the baby growing, a growth spurt. So when we were visiting my
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family, I actually got concerned that I was having contractions because it was so much pressure
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low down and I didn't know what it was. But luckily, my sister-in-law is a doctor, you may
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have heard. And I asked her about it and she was like, well, I don't think that these are
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contractions because it's not peaking and ebbing and flowing the way that contractions do. And
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your stomach isn't super, super tight the way that contractions can feel. So I think what
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it was, was the baby was pushing down all of his weight into my pelvis. Like he was just like
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going for it. And it was very uncomfortable. It has happened like two or three times now where
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he'll just kind of like sink really low. And it almost feels like he's pushing really hard.
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But the first time that happened, he was in that position for like two and a half hours.
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And the next day I woke up and I, it was like, it had gone from kicks and punches, little like
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boop, boop inside to like elbows and knees. And like all of a sudden I felt like I could feel his
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bones. It was such a crazy shift. And it was like from 27 to 28 weeks was an entirely different
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experience for me where he was initially, I could feel him moving around and he was getting more
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consistent, but it wasn't like I could feel his like muscles. It's an incredible thing. And there
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is a difference. And that is really hard to describe. I mean, sometimes it's ticklish. It feels
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like ticklish. Um, and you know, you can describe the kicks cause they feel like pokes from the
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inside. Um, but the, the bigger movements, those are, are weird. They feel alien and it's so cute
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and so exciting. Uh, he is definitely moving around a lot. I figured out that he kicks a lot more
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when he's in the dark. So like that description of where he's at said he can see light now. So
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when I expose my belly into the light, he like stops kicking and he, I think he might be looking
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around or something and he, he doesn't move around as much. But when my clothes are covering my belly
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or I'm under a blanket, that's when he's super active. And there's like two parts of my stomach
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that he likes. It's like the top right half of my stomach and the bottom left half of my stomach.
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Like those are the places I feel the most kicking, although I'll feel them all over,
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but generally like I can depend on at least a couple of times a day. I'll feel like those two
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spots a lot. It's just amazing. He's such a little person. I have conversations with him all the time.
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He likes music. When we put music on outside of me, I can, he'll start going. Like if he hears music,
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he'll start going and it's, it's just the cutest thing. It makes me laugh because I don't think he
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really like kicks more when I'm singing, but he hears me talk all day. He hears me singing all
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day and maybe he's just used to it. So as far as my symptoms go, so tired. Like I hit 28 weeks and
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all of a sudden I was exhausted. Like I needed to go to bed at 9 30. I feel like I'm getting my energy
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back a little bit. Like it's been five days of really intense exhaustion and now I'm starting to
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get my energy back a little bit or maybe like a week of exhaustion and now I'm getting my energy back,
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but we'll see. I mean, I have a feeling that we're just like on a downward slope of exhaustion now
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because he's putting on like half a pound a week, which is so much. So yeah, there were nights where
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I was exhausted by 8 30 and I just needed to get in bed and sleep until the morning. Of course I went
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to the bathroom in the middle of the night because, because baby, because pregnancy, but like mostly
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just sleeping. I just so tired. So that's been a whole thing reminding me of the first trimester because
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second trimester, I had a lot of energy or more energy. I remember still being tired in the second
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trimester, but not like the last few days where it was like, if I don't go to bed, I don't know what
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will happen. So that's been a third trimester thing that like hit me as soon as I was in the third
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trimester. I'm so hungry in the last few days. I've gotten so hungry, but I'm really trying to keep
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it healthy. It's not easy because I do crave sugar, but I'm like really working to try to avoid
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giving into that. I might have like a little piece of chocolate every day, but that that's really what
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I'm trying to like hold the line. I really want to make an effort not to put on too much weight in
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the pregnancy, but of course it's all about the baby being healthy. It's all about having a healthy
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pregnancy. That's the most important thing, but I don't want to, if I can avoid it, I would like to try
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to eat my healthiest and exercise so that I don't put on too much weight. So I am trying to eat really
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well and I've also been exercising. I talked about this at my 24 week update, but now I've incorporated
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some, some light strength, exercising, training, like weightlifting into my routine just a little
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bit because my arms were feeling really weak and noodley. And so I started bringing in some of those
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exercises, all very safe, all very, uh, mindful, but just to kind of give my muscles a little bit
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more exercise. I alternate that with my yoga and I go for walks and those walks are just like a
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lifesaver. I love going for my walks. They make me feel so good. They make me feel like I'm doing
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something good for my body. I'm doing something good for the baby. And prenatal yoga is also great
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because it really encourages stretching, good breathing techniques and squats, which are really
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good for getting the baby in the right position. So that's kind of been something I've really wanted
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to focus on is just staying healthy during this pregnancy by trying to eat healthy and trying to
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exercise a good amount. So in a couple of days, I don't know if this will be before, after this video
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goes out. Uh, I have my doctor's appointment, my 29 week doctor's appointment where I will just get
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my normal checkup, but also I'm getting my diabetes test. So I have to drink that very sweet drink and
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then they test my blood to make sure everything is good. I'm a little nervous about it, but I've been
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a little bit nervous about every test in pregnancy. And I think that that's just normal. So I'm just
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going in and staying calm and trying to, uh, recognize that it's actually a pretty low percentage
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that you would actually have gestational diabetes. So we'll just see what happens, but I'm excited
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to see my doctor again. It's been four weeks. And after this point, since we're in the third
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trimester, I'm going to be seeing him every two weeks, which is crazy because let's just keep in
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mind, 28 weeks means 12 weeks till the due date. I'm going to be 29 weeks very soon. And that's 11
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weeks. And then it's 10 weeks. It's just, it's going by super fast and also super slow. And that's
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a crazy feeling. Uh, so that's going to be intense and trying to get everything ready. So that is the
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last thing I want to talk about, which is the moodiness and the anxiety. Like that has been
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something that's been throughout the pregnancy, like just a little bit here and there, right? At the
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beginning, a lot, just waiting to find out if the baby was going to be okay. Now we're getting into
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the part of like, Oh, things are getting real. I need to prepare. I need to get everything ready
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for the baby to come. And it is a very exciting time. It's also nerve wracking. Some things are
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still backordered. Uh, the nursery is all up in the air. We are actually, I don't know if I've
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mentioned this, we are moving next door. So that's a thing. We're moving next door and, uh, we're not
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moving for a couple of weeks. So I still can't set up the nursery, which is breaking my brain.
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But I also recognize that we have time and it is all going to be fine, but I would love to just
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nest. And I can't really, cause I don't have a house to nest in since everything's going to be
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moving and upended to the net, to the new house. So gotta, gotta kind of keep calm about that.
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But that is kind of been my, my experience in the last just week or so is just a little bit more
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moodiness, a little bit more worry, a little bit more anxiety as the due date gets closer,
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but it is all very exciting. And I just can't wait. I'm so excited to meet this little man.
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He has such a little personality and I love it. So that is kind of the end of my update. I'm trying
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to think if there's any new things. My skin has really cleared up from the first trimester,
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which I'm so grateful for. I think maybe it was pregnancy hormones early on and now things are
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starting to clear again, which is lovely. And that's really it. So let me know in the comments
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