30 Weeks

The baby's lungs and digestive tract are almost fully developed. While the baby will soon slow up growing in length, it will continue to gain weight until it's born. The baby now measures about 15.7 inches from head to toe now.

The baby continues to open and close it's eyes, seeing whats going on in utero, distinguishing between light and dark. In addition to turning towards a light shone on my belly, it may now reach out toward it. Some researchers believe that baring your stomach to to light stimulates visual development, but don't expect your little one to have 20/20 vision when it's born! Newborns can only see a distance of about 8-12 inches. Completing the picture, the baby now has eyebrows and eyelashes.

A litre of amniotic fluid now surrounds the baby, but that volume will decrease as the baby gets bigger. If you start to feel a little breathless, it's just your uterus pushing against your diaphragm!

So, we're almost there, I guess... 10 more weeks! We picked up the stroller, car seat, crib and dresser - everything looks fantastic! Rob and I spent most of the night last night putting the crib together, and once we were done, the room looked fantastic! The bright green is dulled down a lot, once the dark furniture is in there! Now we just have to decide on the positioning of the furniture, and I can start washing the little onesies and blankets!

Aside from that, we're both getting excited, it's getting more and more real, the bigger my belly gets...