Week 32
Ame is now in her 32nd week of the pregnancy, though we are beginning to suspect that the current due date (December 18) may be a couple of weeks too late, because there has been a slight pattern of the baby doing things (such as kicking noticeably) earlier than the 'schedule'. However, the typical schedule is not a perfect fit for all babies, so we may be right on track. Either way, the following is something that I pulled from the Baby Center website explaining, in short, how the baby has developed thus far.
By now, your baby probably weighs almost 4 pounds and is almost 17 inches long, taking up a lot of space in your uterus. She has tiny toenails now, and her fingernails have grown in, too. Some babies have a head of hair already; others have only peach fuzz.
We have made something of a nightly tradition of playing with Addie before going to sleep. It usually takes her a few minutes after Ame has lied down to get going, but once she starts kicking around she doesn't seem to want to stop. Usually, I will put my hand on the bottom left side of Ame's belly, which seems to be the location of a foot or two. The added pressure from my hand generally piques Addie's interest, and it's not long before she's prodding at it insistently. We like to think that she's trying to communicate to Ame, "Hey mom, there's something over here that you might want to check out," but I think that we may tend to over-personify her at times. Either way, it makes for a fun five or ten minutes before drifting off to sleep.
We've also tried to get into the habit of reading to her, as she can hear quite well (which she has been able to do since around the 23rd week, according to www.pregnancy.org). She is particularly responsive to rhythmic sounds, as we found out first hand when we read Dr. Seuss' One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish to her. Something about the cadence excited her, and if I recall correctly she began kicking rhythmically at one point. Reading to her is also supposed to hasten her mental development, and it gives us an excuse to unashamedly pick up armfulls of children's books when we're at the library.
I guess that's all that I have for right now. I'll put up another picture of Ame's belly, this one from around 8 weeks, for even more comparison to how tubby she is now. And again, I'll be sure to put up the 3D/4D ultrasound pictures this weekend or shortly thereafter. That's all for now.
By now, your baby probably weighs almost 4 pounds and is almost 17 inches long, taking up a lot of space in your uterus. She has tiny toenails now, and her fingernails have grown in, too. Some babies have a head of hair already; others have only peach fuzz.
We have made something of a nightly tradition of playing with Addie before going to sleep. It usually takes her a few minutes after Ame has lied down to get going, but once she starts kicking around she doesn't seem to want to stop. Usually, I will put my hand on the bottom left side of Ame's belly, which seems to be the location of a foot or two. The added pressure from my hand generally piques Addie's interest, and it's not long before she's prodding at it insistently. We like to think that she's trying to communicate to Ame, "Hey mom, there's something over here that you might want to check out," but I think that we may tend to over-personify her at times. Either way, it makes for a fun five or ten minutes before drifting off to sleep.
We've also tried to get into the habit of reading to her, as she can hear quite well (which she has been able to do since around the 23rd week, according to www.pregnancy.org). She is particularly responsive to rhythmic sounds, as we found out first hand when we read Dr. Seuss' One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish to her. Something about the cadence excited her, and if I recall correctly she began kicking rhythmically at one point. Reading to her is also supposed to hasten her mental development, and it gives us an excuse to unashamedly pick up armfulls of children's books when we're at the library.
I guess that's all that I have for right now. I'll put up another picture of Ame's belly, this one from around 8 weeks, for even more comparison to how tubby she is now. And again, I'll be sure to put up the 3D/4D ultrasound pictures this weekend or shortly thereafter. That's all for now.
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