September 21, 2007

• Baby Update

  I don’t think Aidan has realized yet that there’s not as much room in the womb as there used to be. He’s gotten SO big  and it’s rapidly getting cramped and small in my belly, but he just keeps on trucking. It’s not painful when he moves but it’s pretty uncomfortable… and awkward.  When I’m trying to hold Caity, there’s a pretty distinct looking foot-kick coming through my skin at her.  We can officially set a remote control or small object on my belly and have him kick it off.

  By the way, due to yesterday’s Jena Six rant, my grandma is planning  to ban me from all forms of news media. I’d really broken myself away from so much talk radio but now I’m finding the rants on the increase just from online news and morning news. Sorry about my frustrations, xanga readers!

  There’ll be a baby doctors appointment next Thursday, so if anything special happens, you’ll be notified!

  Baby Update: 33 weeks (6 weeks and 6 days)

  

  This week your baby weighs a little over 4 pounds and has passed the 17-inch mark. He’s rapidly losing that wrinkled, alien look and his skeleton is hardening. The bones in his skull aren’t fused together, which allows them to move and slightly overlap, thus making it easier for him 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 his brain and other tissue expands during infancy and childhood.
  There isn’t as much room for movement in your womb and you baby should have turned to a head down position to prepare for birth.

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