Baby Arlo – 28 weeks

I had a doctor’s appointment today; and because I mentioned to my doctor that I was feeling “huge” (meaning I couldn’t reach down to scratch my foot), she said to meet her in the ultrasound clinic and we’d do a quick fetal growth scan. Sweet!

Baby Arlo is measuring 3lbs, 4ozs, which is in the 80th percentile. Some of the measurements she was doing showed I was measuring 31-ish weeks…and I’m only 28-ish weeks. That made me mildly nervous but Dr B was not worried at all. The baby is also breech right now and she is also not worried about that. She won’t worry about that until I get to 35-ish weeks. But supposedly there is plenty of time for the baby to move back to head down. I am anxiously awaiting that because right now the baby is doing dances on my pelvic floor or something and that doesn’t feel so hot.

The heartbeat was 126 bpm for those of you with your boy/girl scorecards…

Here are a couple of pictures – the one on the left is head on, you can sort of see the eye sockets. On the right it is a profile the face (which is facing right).

And, what you’ve all been waiting for – updated tummy pictures.

28 weeks with Baby Arlo:

And for comparison, here is my 28w picture with baby Fred (aka Mallory):

And here is the progression:
 

I’ve been feeling pretty good. My back pain is being managed better now with some rearranging of my desk setup at work. And as long as I remember to take my heartburn pills regularly, that is OK too.