This week your baby weighs a little over 4 pounds (heft a pineapple) and has passed the 17-inch mark. She's rapidly losing that wrinkled, alien look and her skeleton is hardening. The bones in her skull aren't fused together, which allows them to move and slightly overlap, thus making it easier for her 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 her brain and other tissue expands during infancy and childhood.
We're getting ever closer and I'm getting more and more excited with each passing day knowing that it's going to be SO very soon when she's finally here and I can hold her in my arms.
My mom and I got a lot of work done this weekend as far as getting everything that I have so far in place in the nursery and planning out what else I have left to do. I am having a wall decal made to put over her crib with her name and I went ahead and got that ordered yesterday. I've also got a cross-stitch piece that my mom made for me when I was a little girl and we're going to take that and get it re-framed to match Nugget's nursery. I also am looking to hang up floating shelves and a collage frame in the room so I can display pictures of her all the time. I've also got an old medicine cabinet with a mirror that was once in my grandparents' house and I'm going to refinish that and use the mirror to go right over her changing table. I am really excited about the plans we have for the nursery and I can't wait for it to start really coming together!
I went to the doctor last week for my checkup and got to meet another one of the doctors in the practice. As I may have mentioned before, my doctor wants me to make sure and get an opportunity to meet the other 3 OBs in the practice in case one of them is on call when I go into labor. That way it won't be like I've got a total stranger delivering my baby. :) I wasn't exactly in love with the first doctor that I got to see. There wasn't anything wrong with him, he just didn't really have much of a bedside manner and I just imagine that when I'm trying to push this baby out, I'm gonna want someone a little less gruff. So this was my second doctor of the three and the only female in the practice. She was nice and from the 15 minutes or so I spent with her, I liked her, so that's a relief. Everything was still looking good at this visit. Somehow I've managed to lose 2 pounds since my last visit back at the beginning of July but this doctor didn't seem to be too concerned with that. That takes me up to only gaining a total of 3 pounds. I'm not complaining, but I do want to just check with my doctor and make sure that he's on board with it. My blood pressure was lower than normal, but still in the good, healthy range and so that was a plus. I was right at 32 weeks but I am apparently measuring 34 weeks - who knows what that really means in the grand scheme of things though. Also, Nugget is still breech. Not acceptable little girl! She needs to work on turning and get into position! The doctors keep telling me I have time for her to turn though. So I'm optimistic. If she doesn't turn that means a c-section for me and that is something I most definitely DO NOT WANT. So lots of prayers that she'll get to turning! I'm hoping when I go back to see the doctor on the 19th that she will have turned by then.
Well that's all the updating I have for today! :) I'll fill in more next week!
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