By this week, your baby weighs two and a quarter pounds (like a Chinese cabbage) and measures 14.8 inches from the top of her head to her heels. She can blink her eyes, which now sport lashes. With her eyesight developing, she may be able to see the light that filters in through your womb. She's also developing billions of neurons in her brain and adding more body fat in preparation for life in the outside world.
Hooray for the third trimester! I really feel like this is the home stretch! Actually, this morning I had a doctor's appointment and he told me that I'll have another appointment in 4 weeks and after that I'll start going every 2 weeks. When he told me that it finally hit me in the face - oh my lord! She's going to be here before we know it!!! Yikes! I have so much to do!!!
I am so incredibly fortunate to have such a wonderful family who really go above and beyond to take care of me and to help me prepare for Nugget's arrival. The first thing is the rocker/recliner for the nursery. We are using this old rocker that my parents have had since like the beginning of time. Ever since the early 2000s or so, it has been in my brother Robert's possession and recently that meant it was with him and my sister-in-law, Rebecca, in Herndon, Virginia (i.e. - about a ten hour drive from here). My sister-in-law made the trek down here, by herself mind you, to bring me that chair! I mean we're talking 20 cumulative hours of driving alone just to bring me that chair. I am just so eternally grateful that she was willing to do that, more than I can ever express in words!
Secondly, I've just been gone to St. Simons Island to visit Joe for the past 5 days or so and I got home last night. When I arrived home, I found that the nursery had been painted thanks to my mom. It looks amazing! I can't wait to start getting everything in there and seeing it all come together. Now, I knew that she was going to paint the nursery, but what I didn't know was that while I was gone she and my step-dad would clean my house! They spent 10 hours cleaning!!! And it's not even finished! If that doesn't give you some indication to the condition of my house... I was just overwhelmed and thrilled to find that my house was cleaner than it had ever been. I mean, I don't even think it was this clean when we moved in! It was so nice to come home from vacation and not have to worry about coming home to a dirty house! Now, I just have to keep it this way! Which shouldn't be too hard with my mom threatening me with bodily harm every time we talk if I even think about letting it get the slightest bit dirty. :)
Like I said above, I went back to the doctor today for my 28 week checkup. The doctor says everything is looking great! My weight is exactly the same as it was 3 weeks ago - so no gain (hooray! holding steady at only a 5 pound gain) and my blood pressure is at 130/72 (give or take my bad memory) and that's pretty normal for me. He said everything is going great and he said as long as things continue he's just thrilled with the progress. I go back again on August 4th and then I'll start coming every 2 weeks. Insane! I can't believe we only have about 12 weeks to go! 12 weeks! It all seems like just yesterday that we started this journey. Oh I can't wait to get to the conclusion and finally meet Nugget and start getting to know her! How exciting!!!
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