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Friday, September 19, 2008

17 WEEKS DOWN!


Week 17 of Pregnancy: Baby's Body Fat
Your baby is about five inches long and more than three and a half ounces — the size of your open hand. Baby's body fat is beginning to form and will continue to accumulate through the end of your pregnancy.
How big is your baby now? About five inches long and more than three and a half ounces — the size of your open hand. (Open the other one too and imagine your baby cradled in both your arms right after delivery!) Body fat (baby's, that is) is beginning to form and will continue to accumulate through the end of your pregnancy. By the time your baby is born, body fat will make up about two-thirds of his or her weight (and will make all those chubby parts especially yummy). Your baby is almost certainly listening up by now. In fact, loud noises — the dog barking, the doorbell ringing — will actually startle your baby (and also get him or her used to such noises; for instance, fetuses who regularly hear a dog barking will become babies who sleep right through Fido's outbursts). Your baby's eyes (which have fortunately finished their migration to the front of his or her head) are making small side-to-side movements and can even perceive some light, though the eyelids are still sealed. And since practice makes perfect, your baby is sharpening his or her sucking and swallowing skills in preparation for that first (and second…and third) suckle at your breast or bottle. In fact, most of the survival reflexes that your baby will have at birth are being perfected in utero right now.


***It is so hard to believe that I am 17 weeks pregnant and guess what.... it still hasn't hit me that I am having another baby? Is that normal? Tex and I were talking about how neither one of us really talk much about it and sometimes I think we both forget. Maybe this is just how it is when you already have one that keeps you so busy? I feel guilty sometimes because with Palmer I was so attentive to my pregnancy, read all of the books, kept up with every and any little symptom and sign and with this baby it seems like I just go about my day with Palmer without much of a thought! I know most second, third, etc... time moms probably feel this way.
A couple of important countdowns!!
23 DAYS TILL WE KNOW GIRL OR BOY!!!!
156 DAYS or 22 weeks and 2 days until BABY T #2 is set to be born!

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