You are a mover and a shaker...Mommy's belly is all over the place! Pretty neat to watch and feel! This week, I am guessing you are 5 to 5 1/2 lbs. and possibly around 17 inches long. You are rapidly losing that wrinkled, alien look and your skeleton is hardening. The bones in your skull aren't fused together, which allows them to move and slightly overlap, thus making it easier for you 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 your brain and other tissue expands during infancy and childhood. Speaking of the birthing process, Mommy has been having several braxton hicks contractions on a daily basis, but so far she can breath and talk through them so nothing to worry about. If you were born this week the big news is that your lung development is almost completely mature. That means odds are you'd be a healthy bouncing baby with a just a little help from friends (aka, the NICU). Secretly, a tiny part of me wants you born on Mommy's birthday, which is a few weeks before your due date! Time will tell!
Mommy had an OB appointment on Monday....all went well! Since Mommy has experienced a lot of pressure down under....the OB checked her....cervix is not dilated, still high and thick. She did have more protein in her urine, has pitting edema, and is gestational diabetic, but blood pressure is good and weight gain is 18 lbs. so far..... Mommy is now down to weekly appointments which include non-stress tests. First one is next Monday! Sooooo excited.....
Love you!
Mimi
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