30 Weeks Today!

Today I'm exactly 30 weeks pregnant and heading into my 31st week. Only 70 days until our little bean arrives.

I had my regular doctor's appointment this past Wednesday and my doctor says everything is going really well. My tummy is measuring bang on at 30 weeks and The Bean's heartbeat was a healthy 146 beats per minute. (As usual the doctor barely touched my belly with the doppler before picking up The Bean's heartbeat.)

While she was measuring my tummy the doctor let it slip that based on the way my tummy looks she thinks little Beaner might be a boy! My friends from work aren't buying it - they say according to the Chinese birth calendar we're having a girl and they're pretty sold on that idea :)

Baby Bean is definitely a busybody lately. At any given moment there's a ton of movement going on in my tummy and it's strong enough that Dan can see and feel it. We spend a lot of time just feeling the Bean move around in there.

This week we also started our prenatal classes. And suprisingly for both of us it was great! We'd heard the classes can be a bit dry and not all that informative - but ours was fantastic. Our instructor is a former doula who wasn't shy about role playing and acting out the stages of labour for us. She also has a great sense of humour which helps a lot.

Of course I was the complete keener of our class - showing up with every single item our booklet said we might need (pillow, yoga mat, water bottles, pens and paper etc). No one else was quite as prepared as I was :). I was also the first person to sign up for weekly treat duty (nerd I know - but I love that stuff).