lil' bump: There's a bun in the oven...

Thursday, March 11, 2010

There's a bun in the oven...

Just this week I have had several people say, "I didn't know you were pregnant!" While I feel like I have been smuggling a 20 lb beach ball wherever I go for several weeks and experiencing mildly pleasant amnesia, apparently it hasn't been entirely noticeable!

Speaking of things in the oven- I am definitely hungry for various foods. I have been enjoying baking comforty delicious things (gluten-free, of course!) throughout most of my pregnancy. There must be some kind of programmed home-maker gene that turns on when you get knocked up because I have definitely been loving my mixer and having urges to wear aprons over my bulging bump.

And speaking of food again (didn't someone mention food?), I have had a few cravings. In the beginning I only wanted apples- baked apples, apple juice, apple chutney- you name it! Now it has changed more to citrus- yay grapefruit! I also have the funny typical cravings- peanut butter, pickles, ice cream, but not all together :)

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Lauren_DoranMarch 11, 2010 at 4:36 PM
Look at you with your orange kitchenaid...I love it! Our new house has lots of citrus trees- orange, tangerine and grapefruit...I'll have to send you some if they are still fruiting when we move in:)
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MeganMarch 15, 2010 at 10:44 PM
New House!! and it comes with fruit! how fabuloso! How is the wee one?
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week 35- begins may 4

Now more than 5 pounds, your baby might be more than 18 inches long and seriously competing for space with every other organ scrunched into your torso. Your abdomen may be stretched so large that you're starting to worry your baby is too big, but nature usually does a good job of matching up babies and moms. In any case it's hard to accurately assess a baby's weight at this point because as your baby grows, your amniotic fluid level rises and the placenta grows too.

You may notice that your baby's behavior is becoming increasingly structured, with definite sleep-and-wake cycles. His periods of increased movement may last as long as 20 minutes.

The air sacs of your baby's lungs are becoming lined with surfactant, a chemical substance that keeps lungs expanded after each breath. This will help your baby breathe on his own outside the uterus.

Even without an ultrasound, your provider should be able to tell by now how your baby is "presenting"--whether he is positioned upside down, which means his head is ready to come out first, or if he is breech, which means he'll come out bottom-first. That's partly because your baby's skull, once so soft and pliable, is hardening as calcium is deposited there. His brain still isn't completely closed over with bone, though. His head has fontanels, which are "soft spots" where the skull bones don't completely join together. The largest one is diamond-shape and slightly toward the front of his head. This is the anterior fontanel, and it's the "soft spot" everyone talks about. There is one other noticeable but smaller fontanel toward the back of your baby's head.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

There's a bun in the oven...

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