25 weeks!

So, who said they had their IBS under control via diet?? Oh wait, that was me... nuh uh!! We're not having such a great time of it this week. I've been eating bran flakes and activia yogurt as mentioned before, but it appears to have stopped working. Is it possible the body gets used to these things and then reverts?!

Today I have made Banana & Apricot Bread which contains lots of bran fibre as well, so... a cake of sorts AND healthy! What a fabulous thing!! Only thing is, I couldn't find something called "high fibre bran" so have used Kelloggs All Bran cereal... gawd knows what it will turn out like! I guess I'll find out once it has cooked. It currently has 30 minutes of cooking time left. Very easy to make though.

Heartburn was terrible on Tuesday, I had a cheese and tomato sandwich at lunch and have made the link between tomatoes and terrible heartburn!! So those will be avoided from now until this little one is born!

I'm feeling a whole lot of movement now, baby is very very busy! I could make out a "hard" part on the left side of my lower tum last night - I'm guessing it was a butt (see position of baby below). I've been trying to see if I can feel/identify limbs but it's impossible lol I guess either, it's too eary, or you have to know what you're looking for!!

So... JellyBean time...

Your little grower’s physical proportions are evening out at this point and most of their remaining development will largely be weight gain and lots and lots of nervous system development. The good news is: if your child is born premature now they’ll be more likely to survive without too much trauma as their lungs began to produce “surfactant” last week, which means their tiny respiratory system is getting stronger with each passing day. Yes, now’s a good time for a minor sigh of relief and a quick pat on the back. All that hard work and conscientious living is really getting your child prepared for a healthy delivery. Keep up the fabulous work mama! This week they’ll be scootching slowly out of the old breech position and start rotating (already!) into a better position for exit during their birth. Their head and feet are slowly rotating so that the head is pointed down towards the birth canal. Time is short (or really long, depending on who you ask)—just (still!) 14 weeks left before you can go back to being a single-resident human.

3 weeks to go until the 3rd trimester... how scary!