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.
So that's exciting stuff. Quinn is more active now, though I'm having a hard time figuring out exactly what stimulates him. He was kicking the other day at work and my friend Tracey got to feel him kick once (she's the first human to feel him!). However, once he figured out he was being felt for, he went back into Baby Ninja Stealth Mode, so he only gave her one good kick.
We also took our newborn class at Centennial this week. We learned how to give newborns baths, circumcision and cord care, basic feeding information, swaddling, diaper changes, etc. We were each given a doll and had to hold it for the entire class. Most of the people were further along than us in their pregnancy and yet seemed to struggle with holding the babies all the time. We had to hand off babies to one another when we went to the bathroom and such, and we didn't struggle with that either thanks to Lyla and Pressley. I think we were the class rock stars :-)I had a boy doll who looked like he was in the middle of a scream and Turner got a girl who was very peaceful looking. He kept accusing me of trying to switch our babies when we took turns holding them both. All that said, it was fun (or funny at points) and informative. We may take an infant CPR class as well.
As for the rest of our week, see my upcoming post re: Maxx.
Love,
J
(Who is posting as Turner because she is lazy and tired)
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