30-week update

I have so much to blog about but Luke has the camera and he is travelling for work so it will have to wait.  I don't have any belly pictures for this post but I have something even better!  Today I am 30weeks, 4 days pregnant with little brother.  I had an OB visit this morning and had a follow-up ultrasound to check little brother's growth too - so it was an exciting morning for me!  First, this was the best picture I got of him - he was not cooperating (as usual) with the profile pictures they tried to get but I love this picture of his face, so sweet.  He has his hand (I think) under his chin, but you can see his right eye, nose, and those kissable lips.  

The doctor told me today that little brother is still measuring pretty small and that the umbilical cord flow has medium to high resistance.  My OB explained it to me that the umbilical cord is like a water hose and the nutrients/blood/etc should be free flowing to the baby (little to no resistance).  For some reason, mine is not working like it should.  All of this to say that we will go back in 3 weeks again to check little brother's size and the umbilical cord flow.  After the next appointment I may have to start going in for twice weekly non-stress tests just to make sure little brother is ok and the absolute worst case scenario is that he will be here earlier than planned (like my OB said - we know we can feed him out here in the real world, even if we don't want him to be here just yet).  Starting today I will be doing "kick counts" each day - I am sure he will have no trouble kicking/punching/moving like he should - he is definitely a wiggle worm in there, even if he is a little wiggle worm. He weighed a little over 3 lbs today and if he continues to grow and develop like he should the MFM doc said he would probably be around 6 lbs at full term.  After delivering Colin at 7lbs 9oz.... 6 lbs doesn't seem so bad.  :)

Everything else on the scan looked good - everything is developing normally and we could see him taking his "practice breaths" which was really neat.  I am a worrier by nature - thanks mom! - and especially being at the doctor and hearing this without Luke was tough today.  But I know that little brother is just fine.  I would still really appreciate any special thoughts/prayers for this little boy to continue to grow big and strong and for him to be able to receive all of the nutrients he needs through that cord.  When we go back in 3 weeks they want to see that he is continuing to grow and hopefully the resistance with the umbilical cord will have slowed - they are fancy terms and numbers and levels to measure all of this but I will leave that up to the professionals!  I really hope we can get some good 3D shots of him next time too - today he was faceplanted into my uterine wall, ha. 

I will definitely take a belly shot on Friday @ 31 weeks...can't believe the time is flying by so quickly.  As usual, I can't wait to meet this little boy and am getting more excited and anxious as the days go by.  We love you little brother!!!