( Hospital recap, cut for length )

How your baby's growing:This week your baby weighs a little over 4 pounds and measures 17.2 inches from the top of his head to his heels. His skin is becoming less red and wrinkled, and while most of his bones are hardening, his skull is quite pliable and not completely joined. This will help him ease out of your relatively narrow birth canal ( Read more... )

How your baby's growing: 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 ( Read more... )

I had my 31 week appointment, and all looks well! I gained another 4 pounds, so I'm up about 22 pounds overall right now. My blood pressure was 120/72, which is a little high for me (I'm usually 110/70), but I'm not going to stress about it. Owen's heartbeat was found right away, right under my belly button (I hope that means he's head down!), ( Read more... )

Holy crap, I'm down to single digit weeks ( Read more... )

As per Dana's request, I have put together a progression of pictures from my pregnancy, from 12 weeks to 30 weeks. For some reason, the last two became really pixelated when I resized them, so they don't look very good. Enjoy!


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Happy Easter everyone ( Read more... )

Since the beginning of time, I've known that I'm going to have an epidural when I give birth. I have never apologized for that, and I don't plan to. And along with that, I've never let anyone make me feel bad about my decision ( Read more... )

I got a phone call this morning from the Walgreens store manager, wanting to talk about the prescription mess we've been dealing with. At first, he was apologetic, then he started defending the pharmacy, basically trying to insinuate that it was my fault because I agreed to pay that amount for the RhoGAM shot. He asked if there was a middle ( Read more... )

How your baby's growing: Your baby now weighs about 2 1/2 pounds and is a tad over 15 inches long from head to heel. His muscles and lungs are continuing to mature, and his head is growing bigger to accommodate his brain - which is busy developing billions of neurons. With this rapid growth, it's no surprise that your baby's nutritional needs reach ( Read more... )