Great Landings

It’s that time of the week once again, time for some baby watch! Welcome to week #21, this week is brought to you by the letter R and the number 4. (Sorry I have been watching Sesame Street to get ready for the baby) Big news this week is that according to Erin the baby is in full aerobatic swing. Rumbling, tumbling, and jumping all over the place, or so I am told. Still nothing for me to feel, but pretty awesome that Erin can feel it moving around so often. Other then that Erin is feeling great and we are both very excited to be starting the downhill part of this trip. Only 19 more weeks to go!

In other news we had our monthly doctors appointment yesterday. All six minutes of it. The entire appointment consisted of peeing in a cup, getting weighed, and listening to the heartbeat (best part by a mile). All of that stuff took no more then six minutes, the doctor said everything was looking perfect and we were on our way home. In fact now that I think about it, we waited in the waiting room almost four times as long as our appointment was.

The final development of the week was Erin and I attempting to do the Babies R Us registry. Thinking back to how I got jipped when we did the wedding registry (Erin said I could work the gun, and then took it away from me) I was all about getting in on the action. But once we got there, things went much differently then I had planned. I did get to work the scanner gun so that was cool. But trying to figure out what some of the stuff in that store was even for, let alone pick one out of a shelf of 15, was not very easy. There were crazy amounts of stuff, and variations of stuff, on top of other stuff, and I quickly started to feel very overwhelmed with the whole thing. In the end we did get some stuff put on the registry, but Erin will have to go back with reinforcements later on. Someone who knows what half that stuff is, and if we should even register for one. In the mean time I will continue my search for something I can wrap my head around. Like a video camera, or its first car.

Here is what the baby site has to say for week #21~

Baby’s Growth and Development at 21 Weeks Pregnant

By your 21st week of pregnancy, not only have your baby’s important systems developed, but many of them now are operating, in preparation for functioning on their own after birth:

• Your baby might be about 7 inches in length, roughly the length of a carrot, by 21 weeks pregnant. She weighs almost 11 ounces.
• Your baby’s digestive system is put to work! By your 21st week of pregnancy, your baby has probably begun swallowing amniotic fluid and absorbing small amounts of sugar from it.
  • Sugars pass through her developed digestive system, giving these organs important practice.
  • These sugars only make up a tiny part of your baby’s nourishment.
  • Most of her nutrition still is delivered through your placenta and the umbilical cord.
  • Your amniotic fluid changes day to day, based on what you’ve eaten. Since your baby is swallowing the fluid, she gets a “taste” of what you’re eating!
• Your baby’s bone marrow, rather than your baby’s liver and spleen, takes over its permanent job of making blood cells.
• By your 21st week of pregnancy, your baby’s arms and legs are in proportion.
• As muscles strengthen and neurons connected to her brain continue to develop, her movements become more coordinated.

Length of a carrot this week, pretty sweet! Not sure what to think of the baby getting a “taste” of what Erin is eating. Last thing we need is a brownie and diet coke addiction right out of the womb. Can’t wait to see what next week, and a new year bring!

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