35 weeks

5 weeks, 35 days left!

I'm starting to get more and more uncomfortable now, now that this kid is HUGE probably! haha. He is VERY clearly out of room now.

He can come pretty much at anytime now, cause I'm ready. This weekend me and my mom went shopping for the final items I needed, those are all washed and folded. We just needed to put the car seat in the car and set up his swing, bouncer, and pack n play.

Here is me in all of my hugeness:




At about 20 inches and five and a half pounds (but with about five more weeks to grow), most of your baby's growth over the next month or so before you meet will be in weight (with a gain of anywhere from one pound to several), not height (baby's pretty much reached the in utero limit in that department). Accordingly, fat continues to accumulate at a rapid pace these days (on baby, not just on your hips). Back in the middle of your pregnancy, your baby's weight was made up of only two percent fat; now that percentage has soared to closer to 15 percent (and will increase to 30 percent at term). Which means your baby's once skinny arms and legs are now quite plump…and irresistibly, squeezably soft.

Also continuing to grow at an amazing pace is your baby's brain power. Luckily, the part that surrounds that amazing brain — the skull — remains soft. And for good reason: A soft skull will allow your baby to squeeze more easily through the birth canal. (Mother Nature was really thinking this one through — imagine trying to push out a rock-hard head…ouch!)

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34 weeks

6 weeks left!

This past Saturday I was thrown a beautiful baby shower! Andy and I really feel truly blessed to have so many wonderful and generous friends. It was a great day. Here are some pictures:







So needless to say, I spent the whole next day from sun up to sun down organizing all of the new and fun baby gear. 5 loads of laundry later and every baby item in my house is nice and clean and folded and put away. I put all of his bedding on the crib.

Here are some pics of me this week...I think I grew a lot from last week:




Your baby could be as tall as 20 inches right now and about five pounds. Need a visual? Hold a five-pound bag of flour in your arms and imagine it's your soon-to-be-born baby (cradle it, and you'll only get strange looks in the baking aisle). Then stack three such bags one on top of the other (and get ready for some more strange looks, maybe from the same clerks who saw you grinning and holding that one-pound box of sugar a few weeks ago). That's how tall your baby is now. (Now go bake some oatmeal raisin cookies with all that flour!)

If your little doughboy is, well, a boy, then you'll be pleased to know that this week his testicles are making their way down from his abdomen to his scrotum. (Some baby boys — three to four percent — are born with undescended testicles, but they usually make the trip down sometime before the first birthday.)

Your baby's fingernails now reach the end of the fingertips and may even curl over the tip, making a manicure one of the first things you'll need to do for your little bundle.
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33 weeks!

Oh my goodness haha!

Everything is going good, I'm feeling good and looking large and in charge. Last Thursday I was thrown a very nice surprise baby shower at my office. I was really shocked and I couldn't believe how generous my coworkers were! We got a ton of clothes, a bunch of items from our registry and some very generous gift cards.

Here is me this week:
How much larger can I get?





And about baby this week:

This week your baby may be anywhere between 17 to 19 inches in length and weigh more than four and a half pounds. At this stage in fetal development, your baby could grow a full inch more this week alone — especially if he or she has been on the shorter side. Weight gain can range from a third more growth to a full doubling before the big debut.

The level of amniotic fluid in your uterus has reached its maximum, making it likely that you have more baby than fluid now. That's one reason why you're probably feeling lots of nudges and pushes — there's less liquid to cushion the blows. (Of course that means you're even closer to your baby now!)

If your uterine walls had eyes, here's what you'd see: your fetus acting more and more like a baby, with his or her eyes closing during sleep and opening while awake. And because those uterine walls are becoming thinner, more light penetrates the womb, helping your baby differentiate between day and night (now if only baby can remember that difference on the outside!).

And good news! Your baby has reached an important milestone about now: The development of his or her own immune system that (along with antibodies from you) will be able to provide protection from mild infections.

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32 weeks

Wow 32 weeks! Yikes!

Anyways, this weekend we had our childbirth class. It really wasn't anything too spectular but the instructor did give some information that was a little bit helpful and I now have a better understanding of how this whole birth business is going to work. It didn't scare me at all, except for the whole info on the epidural. Which I think I am now going to try my hardest to avoid and be as strong as I can. We'll see how that all works out.

I had a Dr's appointment on Friday, everything looks & sounds good!

Baby boy is doing good, I feel him moving a lot less now, and when I do, it's a lot less punches and kicks, but more stretches. He's head down now and has been for a few weeks, so hopefully he stays that way. Oh and the poor lil guy gets the hiccups...A LOT...like 2 or 3 times a day!






Here is what is going on this week:

This week your baby weighs almost four pounds and could be up to 19 inches long. And though that's a head-to-toe length, your baby is actually back to a curled-up position (you try standing up in those cramped quarters!). You're likely feeling tapping and squirming instead of your baby's signature rocking and rolling. That's because, while comfy, your baby is a bit tight for exercise space right now. Your baby has also probably settled into the head-down, bottoms-up position in your pelvis in prepartion for birth. That's because the fetus's head fits better at the bottom of your inverted, pear-shaped uterus. It also makes it easier during childbirth if your baby comes out head first. Fewer than five percent of babies prefer the bottom-down (or breech) position by full-term. Don't worry if your baby hasn't assumed the head-down position yet. There's still a good chance he or she will flip head-side-down before birth — even in the tight confines of your uterus.


While your baby is still getting nourishment through the umbilical cord, it won't be long before you'll be bringing on the breast milk or formula (and soon after, the mashed carrots and peas). In anticipation of that momentous transition to mouth feeding, your baby's digestive system is all set and ready to go.

And because your baby is accumulating more fat, his or her skin is finally turning opaque (like yours), which means those see-through days are over. Though weeks away from D-day, your baby's looking more and more like a newborn.

And speaking of that big day, hope you're resting up for it — because your bambino certainly is. In preparation for that big first date with you, your baby is sleeping like a baby — with sleep cycles of 20 to 40 minutes long (which would also account for the decrease in movement you're likely feeling these days).

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