30 weeks...

So with just ten weeks to go, here's what Baby Stevens is up to:

Their lungs and digestive tract are almost fully developed and growth in terms of length will soon slow down (they measured slightly stumpy about 24 weeks, which, if they're taking after their mother's side with height isn't suprising!) but generally babies measure at about 39.3cm from crown to toe now. They will continue to gain weight until they're born. This week our baby continues to open and shut their eyes and the realy cool thing is that they can probably see what's going on inside my uterus, distinguish light from dark and even track a light source such as a torch. We have played with that recently and it really does work, it's super fun watching my tummy make all sort of funky shapes! And for those who are either following baby's development, or who just have a plain weird obsession with poo, the baby's first poo, known as meconium, is being formed in the intestines – it's made up of various waste products including lanugo, mucus, amniotic fluid and old skin cells. Lurvely!

The past couple of weeks, I've really noticed the breathlessness and my legs get tired so quickly, they ache like mad when I've been walking up stairs. My bump is quite high up which is probably why the breathlessness is more prominent and definately explains the heartburn.