By the 30th week of pregnancy, the growth and development of your baby continues, day by day it also fills your uterus more. Many a times it might have happened that you must have noticed or felt the movement of an arm or leg in your abdomen. There are many parents who enjoy or have a great fun to guess the body part of the unborn baby as the baby makes some movement in mother’s abdomen during the period of thirtieth week of pregnancy. This thing or fun of guessing the body parts becomes more interesting week by week. The feel of a round lump that is hard in consistency is either the baby’s head or your baby's buttocks or head, and the long and flat thing felt must be the back of your baby. In this case your physician can help you to identify the bumps or lumps of your baby when you visit for your next prenatal check-up.
There will be decrease in volume of amniotic fluid in your uterus as your baby is getting big and slowly starts to take up more and more space in your uterus.
Now your uterus becomes of about four inches above your umbilicus. Now you are in pregnancy’s the home stretch, and are expanding by running quickly out of room.
By the pregnancy week 30, you must be probably feeling more tired because of the increase in the level of progesterone in your body and even because that you must be not able to have your proper enough or comfortable sleep during the night. This is the proper time now that you must think of body pillow for your comfort and for getting enough amount of sleep.
You must go for a set of silk bed sheets if you are not able to get having proper sleep or if you are facing the difficulty while shifting your positions while sleeping at night. If you will were silk pajamas then you will feel ease in shifting your positions or your movements in the bed and as with the help of silk you can slide across your bed-sheets comfortably. In many cases it is found that the lady feels that sleeping in a semi-upright position is comfortable. If you are having an armchair whose back can be lowered and foot can be raised to allow the sitter to recline in it then you must try to take rest on it for taking a short sleep. While snoozing in this manner may be felt easier to change the position from one side to another, and even to get up from the chair becomes comfortable after taking a nap of one or two hours.
Here at pregnancy week 30, your balance must be inclined down. Along with this the hormones responsible in your pregnancy makes your joints loose. In many cases lady finds that her feet goes up fully during her pregnancy because of loosening of the joints. Many of the times if it happens that your foot grows during the period pregnancy then it would not be back to normal after, this would be very sad for those ladies suffering this.
While entering into the phase of third trimester many women once again experiences more swings of the emotions.