It's been such a busy week! The baby shower was Sunday, so I've spent every day since then organizing baby stuff, figuring out what we still need and either ordering it or going to get it, setting up furniture, etc., etc. We went to Ikea yesterday and got the rest of the furniture and few other little things we needed. We finished getting all the furniture put together and set up a little while ago. Actually, I think we've got everything done in the nursery except the picture from the baby shower. The glass broke, so I need to replace that and order the pic to put in it. I'll try to get some pictures of the finished room posted next week.
Thursday was our appointment with Betty. Everything was fine. The baby is dropping down some, so she was measuring about the same as the week before. Betty also checked my cervix- the baby is definitely head down, I was a tiny bit dilated, about a finger tip, and pretty thinned out and soft. Nothing too exciting, but off to a good start. Next week I'll have a sono to check her growth. I'm eager to make sure she's on target with growth.
This week's update:
Your baby is still packing on the pounds — at the rate of about an ounce a day. She now weighs almost 6 pounds (like a crenshaw melon) and is more than 18 1/2 inches long. She's shedding most of the downy covering of hair that covered her body as well as the vernix caseosa, the waxy substance that covered and protected her skin during her nine-month amniotic bath. Your baby swallows both of these substances, along with other secretions, resulting in a blackish mixture, called meconium, will form the contents of her first bowel movement.
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