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Pregnancy Calendar Week 30
Your Baby Growth and Development
Your baby weighs almost three pounds now and is approximately 15.5 inches long. The permanent teeth have developed and are waiting in his gums. His eyelids will open and close, he will even look around and turn toward light. Your baby can not only hear your voice, but can recognize it. Also, he has a grip so strong it is capable of gripping your finger. At this point, your baby may be practicing nursing as he sucks his thumb. He has lungs that are capable of breathing air
No surprises here: your little porker is getting even cuter with increasingly pudgy arms and legs this week thanks to the ever-growing layers of subcutaneous fat. During pregnancy calendar week 30, your baby’s lanugo is starting to disappear. While this fine prenatal hair once covered his/her entire body, it is now only visible on the back and shoulders. His/her skin is now pink and smooth, bone marrow is now capable of red blood cell production. Red blood cells deliver oxygen and remove waste from the body.
In preparation for respiration after birth, your baby will mimic breathing movements by repeatedly moving the diaphragm. These movements are rhythmic and may even cause him to get a case of hiccups if amniotic fluid is accidentally inhaled!
Mom during Pregnancy Calendar Week 30
You may find yourself with a nasty case of heartburn from time to time. This is caused as the uterus grows and displaces some of your internal organs.
To help, remaining seated or upright for at least 30 to 45 minutes after eating a meal. If heartburn is interfering with sleep, try sleeping in a recliner. Some women report that eating smaller, more frequent meals helps, as well as staying away from spicy, greasy or heavy foods.
Sleeping may also be a problem now, so remember to use pillows to prop or support your legs and belly. Also, sleeping on your left side may help as well. If you’re feeling extra fatigued, you’ve probably joined the sleeping shouldn’t be this tough when I’m this tired club, especially if you’re experiencing a lot of back pain and general discomfort. Exercise is a great way to keep up your energy and stamina. Taking a nice leisurely walk or swimming a couple laps of the pool can help more than you think.
During pregnancy calendar week 30, you may notice colostrum leaking from your nipples. This is your body’s way of preparing for breastfeeding. While stretch marks are quite common during the third trimester of pregnancy, some women also experience painful pimples known as pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy (PUPPP). Although these pimples most often develop within abdominal stretch marks, they may also appear on the buttocks, arms, or thighs. Fortunately, your healthcare provider can prescribe an antihistamine or topicalmedication to ease your discomfort.
Common Pregnancy Symptoms in Week 30
• Breast Changes: tenderness, fullness, darkening of the areola
• Frequent Urination
• Constipation
• Heartburn or Indigestion
• Headaches
• Stretch Marks
• Itching
• Round Ligament Pain
• Hemorrhoids
pregnant in week 30 have commonly asked Questions:
How to relax during Pregnancy?
If you’re feeling tense during pregnancy calendar week 30, you may want to consider learning more about various relaxation techniques. In addition to helping you cope with your feelings about your baby’s impending arrival, relaxation techniques can be used to provide natural pain relief during labor. While prenatal yoga is one of the most popular ways to promote relaxation, there are many other exercises that can help you learn to better regulate your emotional state.Read more…
Advice about Baby Shower Games
1. Baby Bank – Ask guests to put the money in a piggy bank and give it to the parents for their baby’s first bank account. (usually goes with the baby pool)Read more…
What to do during the First Week with the Baby?
The first week of your baby’s life brings big adjustments for both of you. You are adjusting to being a mother and your baby is adjusting to life outside the womb. Don’t expect too much of yourself during these first days, although you’ve been preparing for the birth of your baby for months. If anyone offers you help — take it!Read more…
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What to do during the First Week with the Baby?
The first week of your baby’s life brings big adjustments for both of you. You are adjusting to being a mother and your baby is adjusting to life outside the womb. Don’t expect too much of yourself during these first days, although you’ve been preparing for the birth of your baby for months. If anyone offers you help — take it!
During the first few weeks of life, your baby eeds to be handled so that life outside the womb seems as little different as possible to life inside the womb. He will be concentrating on getting to know you and his surroundings. What your baby need is wrap him snugly and warmly, hold him closely, handle him slowly, and feed him when he’s hungry. You can also use this time to bond with your baby with lots of skin to skin contact.
Whether you decide to breast or bottle feed, feeding in the first few weeks is not an effortless process. Try to have early feeding sessions in a quiet setting with as few distractions as possible. Make sure you are in a comfortable position as it takes new babies a while to eat and you don’t want to end up stiff and sore. Cuddle and caress your baby as feeding time is a wonderful opportunity to show your baby how much he is loved.
If you are breastfeeding, be patient and keep in mind though it may take several weeks until you both feel comfortable and get a feeding schedule down. Most new moms feel and experience:
• Discomfort or pain in the perineal area if you had a vaginal delivery Incision pain or numbness if you had a cesarean delivery
• Exhaustion!
• Bloody vaginal discharge for the first week or so
• Abdominal cramping (afterpains) as the uterus contracts
• Breast discomfort or engorgement
• Elation or depression or swings between both
• Fears about your adequacy as a mother
• Profuse sweating after the first couple of days
• Although it may be tempting to try to be a ‘supermom’, now is not the time. The best advice that I received as an new mom was to accept the help of others, eat regular meals and sleep when the baby sleeps. Now it’s my turn to pass that advice on to you.
Advice about Baby Shower Games
1. Baby Bank – Ask guests to put the money in a piggy bank and give it to the parents for their baby’s first bank account. (usually goes with the baby pool)
2. Feeding Time! –Place a bunch of cotton balls in a large bowl. Set an empty bowl in front of it. Instruct the guests that they are to transfer as many cotton balls as possible from one to the other while blindfolded. Blindfold the guests, one at a time, and hand them a large wooden spoon from the kitchen. Give them 30 seconds to scoop up as many cotton balls as possible and place them in the second bowl. This is harder than you think because the balls are almost weightless on the spoon and the blindfolded person has no idea how many cotton balls they’ve gotten. The balls are counted after each guest plays. The guest who transferred the most wins.
3. Grab the Baby Pins –Put several small safety pins in a bowl full of rice. Give each guest one minute to find as many pins (blindfolded) as possible. It’s amazing how difficult it is. The guest with the most pins, wins.
4. Baby Bingo – Print out BINGO sheets for all guest. Before gift opening instruct guests to fill in squares with “baby items”, rattle, teething ring, etc. While honored guest is opening gifts instruct guests to circle any and all items that are given that match what they have written on their BINGO sheets. As BINGO’s are being yelled out have a designated person pass out Shower prizes.
5. Baby Food Guess –Preparation: Take about 10 different baby food jars and number the bottom of each bottle. Use a permanent marker or write on masking tape and stick it to the bottom of the jar. Be sure to write down which baby food goes with which number.Directions:Place the bottles on a tray and pass it around to the guests. The guests then try to guess what flavor is in each bottle and write it down. After everyone has seen the bottles and guessed, then read the answers. The person who has the most flavors listed correctly is declared the winner.Variation: Buy a stack of papered plates and write the numbers 1-10 around the outside. Then put a small spoonful of each baby food next to the number. Give each guest one of these baby food plates and a spoon. The guests then guess the food by tasting all the flavors! As before, be sure to write which flavor corresponds to which number.
6. Mom’s Book – Buy or make a small blank book. Ask each guest to write in advice, their blessings, a wish, proverb, or poems the mom may enjoy. She can read the book while waiting for the newest additions arrival. It’s nice to let guests know ahead of time so they are prepared.
7. The Name Game –Using the baby’s full name, the guests make up words using the letters in the name. The person who comes up with the most words is the winner.
8. Picture It –Ask all of your guests to bring in a photo from when they were babies, hang them all on a bullitien board and have everyone try to guess who each photo belongs to. The person who has the most correct answers wins!
9. Shoe Tie – If men are involve in the baby shower let them in the games by giving them a large balloon to put under thier shirt. See who can tie thier shoes the fastest while bending over from a standing position.
10. Don’t Say Baby! –The object of the game is to avoid saying the word ‘baby.’ Everyone gets a clothespin or safety pin when they arrive, and if someone catches you saying ‘baby,’ she gets your pin. The person with the most pins at the end of the party wins a prize.Variation: Everyone gets a clothes pin… and anytime you were sitting down, you couldn’t cross your legs. If you were caught crossing your legs, the person who caught you got your clothes pin. The one with the most in the end got a little prize.
How to relax during Pregnancy?
If you’re feeling tense during pregnancy calendar week 30, you may want to consider learning more about various relaxation techniques. In addition to helping you cope with your feelings about your baby’s impending arrival, relaxation techniques can be used to provide natural pain relief during labor. While prenatal yoga is one of the most popular ways to promote relaxation, there are many other exercises that can help you learn to better regulate your emotional state.
One basic physical relaxation technique requires that you lay down in a comfortable position. Then, simply close your eyes and concentrate on alternately tensing and relaxing the various parts of your body. Begin with your toes and work your way up to the top of your body.
Mental relaxation techniques focus more on clearing your mind. To practice this form of relaxation, sit in a comfortable position and concentrate on following the pattern of your breathing. Try to empty your mind of any unpleasant thoughts. Breathe in deeply through your nose and exhale slowly through your mouth until you feel completely relaxed.