We had our first appointment with Betty, our Midwife, Thursday. Betty is the same midwife Carrie had her baby with. I worked with Betty in labor and delivery several years ago when she was first building her midwifery practice. She has the perfect mix of experience for my taste: she worked in L&D for like 20years and she's a midwife. Everything went fine at the appointment, heartbeat sounded good, she's measuring (or rather my uterus is measuring) right were it should.
This week's update:
Your baby's growing steadily, having gained about 4 ounces since last week. That puts her at just over a pound. Since she's almost a foot long (picture an ear of corn), she cuts a pretty lean figure at this point, but her body is filling out proportionally and she'll soon start to plump up. Her brain is also growing quickly now, and her taste buds are continuing to develop. Her lungs are developing "branches" of the respiratory "tree" as well as cells that produce surfactant, a substance that will help her air sacs inflate once she hits the outside world. Her skin is still thin and translucent, but that will start to change soon.
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