34 weeks!

Your baby now weighs about 4 3/4 pounds (like your average cantaloupe) and is almost 18 inches long. Her fat layers — which will help regulate her body temperature once she's born — are filling her out, making her rounder. Her skin is also smoother than ever. Her central nervous system is maturing and her lungs are continuing to mature as well. If you've been nervous about preterm labor, you'll be happy to know that babies born between 34 and 37 weeks who have no other health problems generally do fine. They may need a short stay in the neonatal nursery and may have a few short-term health issues, but in the long run, they usually do as well as full-term babies.

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Monday, March 8, 2010

Distractions

Its been tough lately. Everything. Life.
I was thinking today...when I was younger..did I EVER picture that this would be my life? Being engaged and pregnant at 21? Moving back to Madison. Taking a break from school. Crazy. I'm not trying to complain, believe me, that is the LAST thing I want to do. I'm really happy now. I just love to picture sitting at home playing with my child. Hearing him or her laugh, seeing them smile, or yawn. I love the idea. Its just a crazy thought...that this is my life. Wowza.

Anyway, I've been needing some distractions of late, so we've been finding some nice things to do. Friday we went out to dinner at Old Chicago, then relaxed and watched tv. Saturday and Sunday I had to work. Monday I worked, then went out to a late late breakfast with Brooke at Denny's. Its been nice to get out of the house and not think about anything stressful.

So Saturday morning Scott and I went to a paint your own pottery place. It was really fun and something that I had been wanting to do with Scott for a long time. I'm hoping maybe we can do it again sometime! I would like to paint something for baby bean! (I won a painting online on a woman's blog that says "twinkle twinkle little star" and its SO cute! I want to decorate the room based on it, so it might be fun to paint a star or something!) They had a little plaque you could paint, that had lines for name, birth date, height, weight. It was very cute!

So Scott painted me a monkey (since I call him monkey) and I painted a little vase thing. It was really fun! So here are some pictures:
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Look at the cute monkey scott made! :) <3 What a great day!

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