Here's BabyCenter's 33 week update:
This week your baby weighs a little over 4 pounds (heft a pineapple) and has passed the 17-inch mark. He's rapidly losing that wrinkled, alien look and his skeleton is hardening. The bones in his skull aren't fused together, which allows them to move and slightly overlap, thus making it easier for him to fit through the birth canal. (The pressure on the head during birth is so intense that many babies are born with a conehead-like appearance.) These bones don't entirely fuse until early adulthood, so they can grow as his brain and other tissue expands during infancy and childhood.
I thought What To Expect had some interesting info too:
Your baby is still gaining weight (about half a pound a week), and she could grow up to another full inch this week. With that much baby inside your uterus, your amniotic-fluid level has maxed out, which explains why some of her pokes and kicks feel pretty sharp these days. (There's less fluid to cushion the blows.) Antibodies are being passed from you to your little one as she continues to develop her own fetal immune system, which will come in handy once she's outside the womb and fending off all sorts of germs.
She has definitely been moving differently lately than she was before, sometimes cramming her whole body on one side of my belly so that it pokes way out and I'm oddly lopsided. She's also been kicking my kidney or something on my right side, and that is seriously painful! The first time it happened, I thought something was really wrong with me... but then I realized the sharp pain was always accompanied by a kick.
Our house is still nowhere close to being ready for this baby to live here, but we are mentally prepared and ready for her arrival!
1 comment:
Allison, there is a little person growing inside you. Isn't that amazing? How can we not believe in miracles???
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