Here's what Lucy's up to these days...
Get ready for pat-a-cake! Baby's hands are now fully developed and she spends most of her awake time groping around in the darkness of your uterus. Brain and nerve endings are developed enough now so that your baby can feel the sensation of touch. That doesn't mean she can feel it when her father pokes your stomach, however, so tell him to knock it off. Other highlights include:
Your baby's arms and legs have grown to almost the proportions they will be at birth, which is still sort of short. So don't be alarmed when your newborn's arms barely clear her waist. Baby's nostrils, which have been plugged up until now, clear out (like she's taken a super-dose of Sudafed) and she can practice breathing through the nose. The structures of your baby's spine are now made up of 150 joints, 33 rings and some 1,000 ligaments. Can you believe you're growing something that complicated inside of you?
The capillaries, the teeniest blood vessels, are now forming in your baby's body, giving her formerly translucent skin a pink glow. The blood vessels in the lungs also develop this week. You'll see how well that worked out when your baby gives those lungs a workout while you're on line at the bank in a few months.
Your baby weighs about a pound and a half and is about 13½ inches long—roughly the length of one of those recorders you played in elementary school music class. Who's up for a round of "Hot Cross Buns?"
(Side note - why do I always look so much bigger than these diagrams?!)
I love the last line because I think the only thing I can play (or even learned to play) on a recorder was "Hot Cross Buns". Sure brings me back to my elementary music class days! Anyway, I had a check-up this past Tuesday and everything is going great. My doctor even told me how impressed she has been with how great the pregnancy has been going. I'm measuring exactly how I should and she's even glad about the total weight gain (16 lbs, yikes!). From here on out I am seen every 2 weeks. Boy is time starting to fly by!
I've been feeling pretty good the past couple of weeks. No more heartburn at all (keeping my fingers crossed) but still getting the dreadful rib pain and now the back pain. Unfortunately there's not much I can do for either but suck it up. My doc just said "welcome to the joys of motherhood!"
So we finally spent last weekend getting her room all cleared out and ready to start painting! We went out and bought her ceiling fan and Mark cut the hole in the ceiling and today our friend is coming over to wire it for us. Mark went out to get paint samples so we can lock down a paint color. I am so anxious to get the room painted and see it all come together.
I'm pretty impressed with everything we've done so far seeing that I'm still only 25 weeks along. We've gotten all the basics for the nursery (furniture, all the bedding, area rug, valance, blinds, etc.), a good stock on diapers thanks to our new BJ's card, we bought a full-size baby swing, a good start on baby clothes (and headbands and bows!), our entire baby registry set up, and even signed up for two baby classes - Breastfeeding 101 and Childbirth Basics. The planning for the baby shower is well underway too thanks to Jen and my wonderful family!
As mentioned above... I've been seeing the full-size "My Little Lamb" baby swing at Babies R Us and have wanted to get it for awhile now. The thing is, it is $160 at Babies R Us and everyone has told me although they are wonderful, it isn't worth the money for something that they only use for such a short time. So Mark was able to find one on Craigslist practically brand new for $50.00. Can't beat that! So we went and picked it up on Friday night. We have it set up in our living room (envisioning our beautiful daughter swinging peacefully, we hope) and Silas isn't too sure what to think of it. He's really starting to act funny lately and trying to figure out what's going on. He's sat and stared at that swing for a day and a half now. Poor guy!
Anyway, that's all I got for an update this week! Hopefully I'll be back next week with an update on the nursery. :) Have a great week!
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