Great Landings

Hello and welcome to another edition of Baby Watch. We are currently at week #34 and that works out to be around six short weeks left! Amazing isn’t it, Mothers Day camping is just six short weeks away! Oh, and the baby is due about then as well. But seriously you do have your camping plans in order right?

Anyway, things around here are about the same as they have been. Erin is huge and getting bigger everyday. We are at the stage now where she doesn’t even realize how big her belly is getting. Several times the past week at dinner she has managed to bump her belly into the table while sitting down hard enough to spill our glasses of milk. I have also seen her hit her belly with the car door not realizing just how big it is. Otherwise I know it has also been said but we might as well keep saying it, she is also extremely uncomfortable. Swelling, stuffed up, aches and pains, and the lack of a good nights sleep have taken their toll. We are beyond the stage where she was “glowing” and would look at her belly with a cute little grin all while whispering sweet nothings to herself. Instead we are now at the “get this thing out of me” stage where sweet nothings are moans of pain as she tries to roll off the couch, and that “glow” she had has been replaced by a film of sweat from walking the 15 feet from the living room to the bathroom and back. But like I said the light is at the end of the tunnel and she knows it, so there isn’t a lot of complaining.

Nothing new to report from last weeks doctor appointment. They did the usual exam and said that it was likely we would have one more ultrasound down the road but they haven’t scheduled anything yet. We go back next week and from there on out they will change to once a week appointments. They also mentioned they will be poking around a little more and checking out some new stuff. So that ought to be interesting.

The bigger news this week is the Baby Showers. Last weekend Erin had her first shower with her friends. From what she told me it was a really fun time. She brought home a whole pile of cool baby stuff. Some of which I had no idea what to do with. Her family shower is this coming weekend and I am sure that will be great as well. It will also be the first time since Christmas that my Mom and Grandma will get to see Erin, so that should be cool too.

Here is what the baby site has to say for week #34 ~

Baby’s Growth and Development When You’re 34 Weeks Pregnant

Between the 34th week of pregnancy and the 37th week of pregnancy, your baby continues to refine his systems and put on significant weight.

• He probably weighs about 5 1/2 pounds and is about 12 1/2 inches, about as long as a loaf of bread, from head to rump (plus an additional 5 inches or more in legs!).
• The white, waxy coating protecting your baby’s skin (vernix) thickens this week.
• The soft downy hair (lanugo) that insulated your baby’s skin so effectively for months is now almost gone.
• Your baby’s fingernails have reached the tip of his fingers.
• Your baby might gain about a half a pound this week as his weight continues to build quickly.

Erin attest to the fact that the baby is getting very long. It is to the point now that you can easily feel it at the top of her belly as a hard spot. Erin says the other end is sitting “way down low” and I am just going to take her word on that. Either way, that baby is getting big!!

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