According to our daily e-mail, our baby is now almost 15 inches long!
She has doubled in weight over the last 4 weeks and now weighs over 2 pounds. No wonder I've been gaining more weight lately!! haha
Here's what else the e-mail had to say: Your baby's auditory development (hearing) is progressing as the network of nerves to the ears matures. And even though the sounds your baby hears are muffled (thanks to the creamy coating of vernix covering those ears), he or she may recognize both yours and your husband's voices. So this might be a good time to read and even sing to your baby (or rather, your belly) — and a good chance to start boning up on those nursery rhymes and lullabies you'll need to be repeating (and repeating) pretty soon.
Your baby's taste buds are very developed now too (with more taste buds than he or she will ever have outside the womb, actually). Need a taste test? If you eat some spicy food, your baby will be able to taste the difference in the amniotic fluid (but keep in mind that you'll have different mealtimes, with your baby's coming about two hours after yours). Some babies will even respond to that spicy kick by hiccupping. And although hiccups (which feel like belly spasms to you) may seem like they're disturbing to your baby, he or she isn't stressed at all. It's just one more sensation that babies need to get used to.
My doctor's appt. yesterday went well--the glucose test was actually not quite as bad-tasting as I was expecting (just incredibly SWEET!); the thing I dreaded was having my blood drawn, but it all went fine. They will call us if the results of the test come back abnormal, so hopefully we will not hear any news in the next couple of days.
2 comments:
You look great! Not too far to go. The holidays will really make it go fast here at the end!
you're so cute. =)
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