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- Atomic boy 37 weeks
Oh. My. Gosh. We are a mere two weeks away from delivery! Hooray!!! And YIKES! Wahoo! Atomic Boy is is full term! This means that if he arrives now, his lungs should be fully mature and ready to adjust to life outside the womb, even though my due date is still three weeks away. He […]
- Space Boy 35 Weeks
Jude doesn’t have much room to maneuver now that he’s over 18 inches long and tips the scales at 5 1/4 pounds (pick up a honeydew melon). Because it’s so snug in my womb, he isn’t likely to be doing somersaults anymore (haha, try telling him that), but the number of times he kicks should […]
- Cosmic Kid 36 Weeks
Hello Friends, Jude is still packing on the pounds — at the rate of about an ounce a day. He now weighs almost 6 pounds and is more than 18 1/2 inches long. He’s shedding most of the downy covering of hair that covered his body as well as the vernix caseosa, the waxy substance […]
- Rocket Boy 35 Weeks
Rocket Boy 34 Weeks Current mood: voluminous Category: Life Jude now weighs about 4 3/4 pounds (like your average cantaloupe) and is almost 18 inches long. His fat layers — which will help regulate his body temperature once he’s born — are filling him out, making him rounder. His skin is also smoother than ever. […]
- Atomic Boy 33 Weeks
This week the 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 and don’t entirely fuse until early adulthood, so they can grow as his brain and other […]
