Your baby's growing steadily, having gained about 4 ounces since last week. That puts him at just over a pound. Since he's almost a foot long (picture an ear of corn), he cuts a pretty lean figure at this point, but his body is filling out proportionally and he'll soon start to plump up. His brain is also growing quickly now, and his taste buds are continuing to develop. His lungs are developing "branches" of the respiratory "tree" as well as cells that produce surfactant, a substance that will help his air sacs inflate once he hits the outside world. His skin is still thin and translucent, but that will start to change soon.
And here's me:
I've been feeling okay. I had several braxton hicks contractions on Sunday and was totally freaked. I really want to get everything around here in order so I feel more prepared. I want nothing more than for this baby to stay inside 'cooking' for the next 16 weeks so please God, let him stay inside. I will honestly be okay if he's a week late too!
We plan to get rid of somethings this weekend so we can start moving stuff out of the nursery so we can get it set up. Next weekend I want to order our furniture and hopefully register too.
Today we had to go for another ultrasound b/c the last ultrasound showed I have a low lying placenta which can change so we had a follow up to see if it's risen. God I hope it has.
You should SEE the pictures we got! Although they weren't looking at the baby, she did give us a few shots of him. One of them looks JUST like Nick. It looks like they took a picture of him, morphed it into an ultrasound type picture and printed it out. It scares me to look at it! It's crazy!!
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