Friday, October 10, 2008

Week 32 (We're getting there...)


The official Week 32 Update:

By now, your baby weighs 3.75 pounds (pick up a large jicama) and is about 16.7 inches long, taking up a lot of space in your uterus. You're gaining about a pound a week and roughly half of that goes right to your baby. In fact, she'll gain a third to half of her birth weight during the next 7 weeks as she fattens up for survival outside the womb. She now has toenails, fingernails, and real hair (or at least respectable peach fuzz). Her skin is becoming soft and smooth as she plumps up in preparation for birth.


Now just for clarification purposes, this isn't Quinn! But this is what he looks like in there. For some reason, the only pic I could find of a 32-weeker seemed to focus in on his boy parts so sorry bout that. Anyway, I figure it is a reasonably accurate representation of where he's at. Poor little guy is kind of squished up. I definitely want him to get bigger but I hate for him to be all mushed. No wonder most babies like to be swaddled, they're crammed into their moms like sardines before they come into the world.
All in all, the pregnancy is going well. I have been having a bit more heartburn of late (which is normal as he's pushing higher up into my chest area). He moves a lot more now, though he is still sporadic. Other than Turner, only Becky and Tracey have felt him move. In part because he can sense that someone is trying to feel him and goes completely still in baby Ninja mode. The only thing that is really weird is that he doesn't react to Garcia like that. Last night I was laying on the bed and rubbing Garcia and Cia had his head on my belly. The pressure wasn't really any different than the pressure from someone's hand, but Quinn wasn't intimidated by it at all and just kept kicking and rolling around in there. In fact, after awhile, Garcia seemed a little weirded out by it. I think now that Quinn's a bigger boy it seems stranger to him.
Otherwise, the guest room is more or less done and most things are coming along well. We're going to try and work on electricity for Quinn's room this weekend and also put in a ceiling fan as Turner read that the air circulation reduces the risks of SIDS and we'd been thinking about it anyway. This is our last kind of "free" weekend for a bit as next weekend is Turner's birthday to-do, the following is the baby shower and then we're straight into Halloween.
So much going on. Hope all are doing well!
Love to all and HAPPY Friday!
J

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