How your baby's growing:
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.
The baby counter said 49 days. What the heck?! IT is truly amazing that something can feel so drawn out, and yet so fast at the same time. Started out scary, and at one point they had me convinced that this baby was gone. Now we are plus or minus 49 days. My belly is big enough that I do ballet moves at work to file paperwork, and the belly button is getting very close to at least flattening out. (which is all it did with Owen).
I still feel that her position in there, which the Dr basically said Owen created a lower lever area for this baby to be in, causes me more trouble then the "weight gain" and belly growth. The question I am getting this time- more than with Owen is "are you getting excited?" Truth be told, no. More like anxious, nervous... Child birth scared the crap out of me first time around, this time all of that still applies, plus I will be worried about that big boy we have now! For me it's not pain that scares me, it is the complications and how you sometimes have no control of the outcome. So I will be excited meet and hold her, but I have to get through that roller coaster first, and then will be complete to have Owen there with us too. : )
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