Dec. 20: My friend Julia just had a baby girl on Tuesday this week. Little Eleanore Faith. She had her (first) baby three and a half weeks early! Makes me a little nervous, because if I did the same thing, I’d have this little miss in the second week of January. I think she should keep cooking until early February:)
I continue to feel mostly symptom-free this pregnancy. My hips are starting to ache once in a while as they stretch, and this little peanut is getting bigger and less and less movable. Makes it harder to bend and twist, and her movements are getting increasingly, er, notable! We’re looking forward to showing my big belly to Bryan’s family this weekend.
Oh, and I have a cute story to share. I got home from a weekend trip to DC late on Sunday. On Monday morning, Andrew climbed in bed with me, and after cuddling for a moment, he noticed my belly. I think he was a bit startled by it, and he reached under the covers, put his hand on my belly, and said, “Baby sister too! I feel her!”
BabyCenter Week 33 update
This week your baby weighs a little over 4 pounds (heft a pineapple) and has passed the 17-inch mark. He’s rapidly losing that wrinkled, alien look and his skeleton is hardening. The bones in his skull aren’t fused together, which allows them to move and slightly overlap, thus making it easier for him to fit through the birth canal. (The pressure on the head during birth is so intense that many babies are born with a conehead-like appearance.)
These bones don’t entirely fuse until early adulthood, so they can grow as his brain and other tissue expands during infancy and childhood.
and looking back,
BabyCenter Week 32 Update:
By now, your baby weighs 3.75 pounds (pick up a large jicama) and is about 16.7 inches long, taking up a lot of space in your uterus. You’re gaining about a pound a week and roughly half of that goes right to your baby. In fact, she’ll gain a third to half of her birth weight during the next 7 weeks as she fattens up for survival outside the womb. She now has toenails, fingernails, and real hair (or at least respectable peach fuzz). Her skin is becoming soft and smooth as she plumps up in preparation for birth.