29 Weeks

hey ya'll!!

29 weeks. oh my goodness! this week connor has moved even lower. he is now sitting so low that i can only feel him kick in my lower stomach and well, you know all those areas! ha ha! i have a hard time standing all the way up without feeling pain. i think my littl' angel wants out early. oh boy. it really is painful right now and it is hard to do things i used to be able to do. i know it is all worth it.

nicholas and i (well mostly nick since i can not reach and do as much though i try to) are working on the baby room. we picked out two colors one for the top half and one for the bottom half. we are putting a winnie the pooh border in the middle. yes, that is our theme and we are really excited!!! it is so much work i feel like it won't get done on time but i just realize that we must take everything a day at a time and take it from there.

here is a picture of the bedroom set theme:



anways, this is what is going on in the 29th week. Fetal development in pregnancy week 29: If you’ve been feeling butterflies moving around in your belly, it’s not just your run-of-the-mill pre-birth performance anxiety. No, it’s your amazing baby with a case of the hiccups: a fairly common occurrence at this point resulting from practicing breathing for their big birthday. In addition, to getting a round of butterfly-like hiccups, your little swimmer has arduously managed to accumulate enough baby fat to account for nearly 3.5% of their overall body weight. Yeah, compared to we adults, it’s not a lot, but when they’re little like that—it’s certainly a healthy (and warming) accomplishment in its way. Another fantastic accomplishment: your baby's spleen is now in charge of hematopoiesis—the 10 dollar name for the process involved in building up certain important blood components. Another fantastic-accomplishment: your little monkey has been peeing into their amniotic sac for a little while now (this is why potty training takes a while) and if you didn’t know, actually swallows it along with the rest of the amniotic fluid. Although the concept is nasty, their urine is sterile and as part of the amniotic fluid base, is replaced several times throughout the day. So if you didn’t know before, now you can tell people, that yes, you drank your own urine—you were still in the womb, but nonetheless, you’ve been there.

Have a great afternoon everyone!!

Love,

Laurie