Baby Girl Week 28

Baby girl is now about 2 and a half pounds. Kicks are now more forceful and blunt.

Baby Girl Week 27

3rd Trimester!!!

Woot, made it to the 3rd trimester! Baby girl is now about 2 pounds. Her eyelashes are forming and she may now begin to open and close her eyes.  I'm getting bigger and more uncomfortable. Some of her kicks are now a little painful. 

Baby Girl Week 26

Baby girl is now almost 2 pounds and the size of a large zucchini. She continues to practice breathing by inhaling and exhaling amniotic fluid. Her kicks are getting much more noticeable and sometimes a little uncomfortable. 

Baby Girl Week 25

Baby girl is now at least a pound and a half. Her nails are now starting to form on her fingers and toes. She is also starting to grasp her hands and wiggle her fingers and toes.

Merry Christmas

Christmas Eve was a good day. It started with making some cookies in the morning to leave for Santa. That evening we had the Sister Missionaries over for dinner and then they stayed long enough to read the Nativity with us. After they headed out John, Rachel, and David opened their new Christmas pajamas and Rachel helped put out the cookies for Santa before heading to bed.

Christmas day was a lot of fun. Rachel loved opening presents and was very keen to 'help' everyone open their presents as well as her own. David wasn't as into opening the presents as we thought he would be but he did like a few of his presents. Since Christmas was on a Sunday we got to go to church for Sacrament meeting.  We started our day around 7:00 and the kids opened their presents from Santa and we all went through our stockings.  We then had a delicious German pancake breakfast before getting dressed for church in our new clothes. After we got home we FaceTimed with my family while the kids opened there present from them. They had to get off to head to church and we changed into more comfortable clothes before opening the rest of the presents under the tree; we even got a few things for Baby Girl. That night for dinner the Elders came over to eat with us and then they stayed for a little while so we could play a few games.

Baby Girl Week 24

Baby girl is now most likely over a pound and is probably 12 inches tall (the size of an ear of corn). Most babies at this stage have some hair growth at this point but if she is anything like my first 2 kids she doesn't have much if any at all. Sections of her lungs are expanding and she is starting to produce lung surfactant which helps to keep the lungs from collapsing after birth. 

Baby Girl Week 23

Merry Christmas 

Baby girl is just growing a little each week. She is still around maybe just over 1 pound. She now has fully formed taste buds even though she won't taste anything for several more months. Most of her fetal internal organs are now in place and beginning to function well.

Baby Girl Week 22

Baby girl is about 11 inches long and around the 1 pound mark. Her brain is growing and starting to develop more complex neurological connections. She can now hear my heart beating and the sound of my voice which is awesome!

Baby Girl Week 21

Baby Girl is about 12 ounces and 10 and 1/2 inches long. Passes time by sucking her thumb and she has started hiccuping. She is developing body fat and a thin layer of hair called lanugo.