Week 28!

All of a sudden I am starting to feel like an elephant! I read last night that baby has doubled in size in the past 4 weeks - and believe me that is a noticeable increase! She is now 2 1/2 lbs and nearly 15 inches long.

Forget bending at the waist - and goodbye to breathing comfortably! Fortunately I am still sleeping well, though it sounds like I have months of insomnia to look forward to shortly. My gym recently called and asked me if everything was okay - since they hadn't seen me in a while. So I have started trying to make it there again every couple days. One of the biggest draws is the free fruit they have at the front desk :)

A really fun development of the past week or two is the increased movement I feel in my belly - and can even see from the outside! I am pretty sure baby skid's head is on my right side and feet are on the left, and she is facing outward. She has a dance party in there about 3 times a day and I really feel like an alien has taken over my body! (Of course she didn't move a muscle while we were visiting our nieces in Boston this weekend - go figure!) The good news is that she seems to be pretty wide awake much of the day and much less noticeable at night even during my 5 trips to the bathroom, so I'm crossing my fingers that continues post-birth!

In other news, we have begun work on the nursery. Which is really to say that we've made a huge mess in the room as we begin to organize and remove all the clutter we've stashed away in the extra room for 5 years! And we are clearing out bookshelves one by one, and one of these days Scott has promised to organize and move the 500 client presentations he has saved from his 10 years in banking. (that he of course looks at SO frequently that they must be at his fingertips!) I can't wait!!

Here is a picture from Week 27. I will post one ASAP from week 28 because I feel like there is a noticeable difference! Counting down the days till my baby shower that I'm so excited about....

I'm so excited! I just made my first big purchase for the nursery - a crib bedding set! Since Scott outlawed the use of any pink, I was having a hard time finding something that was cute and girly but not cheesy! I figure the green and brown will go well with monkeys so we'll have to find some monkey wall art and stuffed animals! And now that the colors are set we can go ahead and figure out what we're going to do with the walls.

97 Days to Go!

It has been a week since the sugar test and no word from my Dr, so I appear to be in the clear to continue consuming cookies and ice cream to my heart's content. Phew!!

I am now officially 26 weeks and in the last week of my second trimester. (The photo was taken after what may have been my one and only gym workout of the 2nd tri according to Scott!) I am just starting to feel a bit more of the fullness and backpains that I keep reading about - though I am fortunate that I still haven't had any swelling or heartburn.


This is what the guides say about baby this week: Your baby measures about 9.2 inches from crown to rump and weighs almost 2 pounds now. Its hearing is fully developed. As the fetus reacts to sounds, its pulse increases. Your baby will even move in rhythm to music. Lungs are still growing but are not yet mature. Patterns of your baby's brain waves appear like a full-term newborn. It also has patterns of sleeping and waking.