Nursery Tour

Here's an updated tour of the nursery with some of the new items from the baby shower...

8 Months!

8 MONTHS PREGNANT!

This week your baby weighs almost four pounds and could be up to 19 inches long. And though that's a head-to-toe length, your baby is actually back to a curled-up position (you try standing up in those cramped quarters!). At 32 weeks pregnant, you're likely feeling tapping and squirming instead of your baby's signature rocking and rolling. That's because, while comfy, your baby is a bit tight for exercise space right now. Your baby has also probably settled into the head-down, bottoms-up position in your pelvis in prepartion for birth. That's because the fetus's head fits better at the bottom of your inverted, pear-shaped uterus. It also makes it easier during childbirth if your baby comes out head first. Fewer than five percent of babies prefer the bottom-down (or breech) position by full-term. Don't worry if your baby hasn't assumed the head-down position yet. There's still a good chance he or she will flip head-side-down before birth — even in the tight confines of your uterus.

While your baby is still getting nourishment through the umbilical cord, it won't be long before you'll be bringing on the breast milk or formula (and soon after, the mashed carrots and peas). In anticipation of that momentous transition to mouth feeding, your baby's digestive system is all set and ready to go.

And because your baby is accumulating more fat, his or her skin is finally turning opaque (like yours), which means those see-through days are over. Though weeks away from D-day, your baby's looking more and more like a newborn.

And speaking of that big day, hope you're resting up for it — because your bambino certainly is. In preparation for that big first date with you, your baby is sleeping like a baby — with sleep cycles of 20 to 40 minutes long (which would also account for the decrease in movement you're likely feeling these days).

 

56 days until we get to meet McKenzie Ann Clough!

Baby Shower!!!!!!!!

Our baby shower was held on Sunday, September 26, 2010 at the Hopkinton Country Club.  The shower was so much fun and beautiful!  The decorations were so detailed and pretty!  The cake was delicious and the food was superb!  We got so many gifts, we can't believe it!!!!!!  The best part was spending a nice day with so many wonderful people!  McKenzie is a very lucky baby and we can't wait for everyone to meet her!

Check out the pictures from the shower!

31 weeks 1 day!

31 Weeks!

Week 31 of Pregnancy: Activity in the Womb

As far as growth goes, your baby's still on a roll, measuring an impressive 18 inches and weighing in at more than three pounds. At 31 weeks pregnant, you can still expect your baby to gain at least three to five pounds, possibly more, before you two meet.


Your baby's brain is working overtime these days, developing faster than ever. Connections between individual nerve cells are growing at a frenetic clip, and your baby can now perceive information from all five senses. Sure, your baby can't smell anything right now, but that's only because he or she is still submerged in amniotic fluid and needs to be breathing air to get a whiff of anything. Lucky for you — and your baby — yours will be one of the very first scents your baby breathes in, a scent that will quickly become his or her very favorite.


So what's your little dove doing all day while you're busy feathering your nest for his or her arrival? Making faces, hiccupping, swallowing, breathing, pedaling with little hands and feet along your uterine wall, and even sucking his or her thumb. In fact, some babies suck their thumbs so vigorously while in the womb that they're born with a callus on their thumb (what a little sucker!).


9 WEEKS UNTIL WE GET TO SEE OUR BABY!

30 Weeks 4 days

Today we had our first appointment with the midwife!  She was awesome!  She is one of 10, so the odds of getting her on "the big day" is slim to none, but it's nice to know how they operate as a group.

Well, it's happened...I've broke even from my prepregnancy weight.  Today I weighed in the same I did the day I found out I was pregnant!  I've officially gained 0 pounds overall.

Baby's heartrate was in the 130s again and she has moved head down!  We were pretty sure she was breech last appointment and maybe that's why I was measuring ahead.  Today I measured 31 weeks, which I will be on Thursday.

She also said that baby is pretty low in my pelvis and that's why I've had to pee so much more lately!!  Even though baby is low, the midwife said she hasn't dropped yet.

Good News!

I PASSED MY THREE HOUR GLUCOSE SCREENING!  NO GESTATIONAL DIABETES!  BRING ON THE ICE CREAM...ok not too much!