High 5!
That's right - today marks the end of Week 35. Only 5 more weeks to go until Baby Girl's due date. Only 2 more weeks until she's considered "full term". But we'll take the 5 if we can get 'em. Not only is there a tonne of stuff we still have to do around the house to get it ready for her, I have a bunch of stuff I still need to wrap up and transition at work (not that I'll care even one teeny tiny bit about that if Baby Girl were to decide to show up early. I fully expect any worry I have around leaving with a clean transition plan in place would be completely and utterly vapourized as soon as she arrives. :-) )
So here's the babycenter.com update:
"Baby Girl doesn't have much room to maneuver now that she's over 18 inches long and weighs over 5 pounds. Her kidneys are fully developed now, and her liver can process some waste products. In fact, most of her development is complete. From here on, she's mostly concentrating on fattening up.
"You don't have a lot of room to grow either - your uterus - now up under your ribs - is now about 15 times its normal size and you may feel like you've run out of room! If you could peek inside your uterus (which, in fact, we did yesterday ;-)) you'd see there's much less amniotic fluid and much more baby in there now (yup. Very true). Your ballooning uterus is crowding your internal organs too, which is why you probably have to urinate more often and have heartburn and other digestive problems (I'll spare you the details).
"Your little one is so snug in your womb that you may notice she isn't doing somersaults anymore, but the number of times she kicks should remain the same". (oh yeah. Especially around 3am. And don't let those cute little baby feet fool ya. They're STRONG).
Comments
...welcome to my world ....
Posted by The Hubby-Guy on June 29, 2005 8:35 PM.Tim's being kind. It's been pretty rough on him. I can't sleep. I'm always uncomfortable. I can't breath through my nose which drives me nuts. The hormones are starting to kick in again, work is really stressful at the moment, as is the prospect of the mortgage we're about to inherit when the house is done, and I am requiring constant attention (either because I am just physically incapable of doing something, or because I don't want to ruin a comfortable position that've managed to find after 2 hours of tossing and turning but I really need a glass of water or a kleenex, or because I am just feeling needy).
As usual, Tim is my hero through all of this. I'm a very lucky woman :-)
Posted by heather on June 30, 2005 1:53 AM.