Your brain is developing rapidly, your bones and joints are mineralizing (and your skeleton is officially complete), you're practicing your sucking-reflex so that you'll be ready for milk and you're over 2 pounds this week. It's crazy!
This week, we took our glucose test: 28 jelly beans in 3 minutes (though not a Guinness Book of World Records). And passed with flying colors! 104 means that we've got nothing to worry about! Unfortunately, the jelly beans were disgusting and, once we got home, I started throwing up (and kept throwing up for the next few days). Not so fun! But it's all worth it for you. It's also March, now! We're edging closer to the third trimester and you kicked so hard, this week, that it made your daddy laugh. I'm pretty sure we're only one M-month away from meeting you, now. And every day we get more excited! Furniture for your nursery is starting to come in and I have a feeling it will be my favorite room in the house (even more than the parlor)!
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This week, we mark a pretty exciting milestone: On Monday 2/26, we will have LESS THAN 100 DAYS TO GO! Double-digits, baby! These countdowns really make it feel as though you'll be here before we know it!
Your lungs are still developing, you will continue to do adorable womb things like hiccup and tap dance. At 25 weeks, you are the size of a head of cauliflower (also, I read, a Barbie doll)! We will eat roasted cauliflower in celebration! This week, you're continuing to get cuter and chubbier, your skin is getting more opaque (and less wrinkly) and you learned a new trick! You can stick out your tongue, cutie. I applied for maternity leave this week and am actively planning our time together. I can't wait for our days of cuddling and joy. The Pinterest Boards are chockful of activities and the playlist in soft and loving. I've started reading through the labor and delivery booklet we were sent, after our first childbirth class--and it makes everything feel even more real! So much to think about and I feel grateful for every decision we get to make and every opportunity to bring you here healthy. I mean--born! But, this week, you're the size of an ear of corn! And also a cantaloupe? But I'm not asking questions. As long as you're healthy and on your way!
You've been brewing in my belly for six months! It's so crazy to believe; it feels like you've always been here and like we've always been waiting for you. I wake up grateful, every day. This week, you're kicking up a storm as your spine strengthens (you have 1,000 ligaments, 150 joints, and 33 vertebrae in there), your blood vessels are developing inside your lungs, to ensure you breathe beautifully, earthside and your hair and skin are beginning to pigment. You're nearly two pounds of pure love and Mama's started nesting this week: We ordered a bigger couch for the living room, for more couch cuddles and for all the people who are going to come meet you to sit, and feng shui'ed the downstairs office into an office/parlor hybrid. We can't wait to read you stories in here and to look up at the glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling! Your month 6 appointment was this week and you were playing hide-and-seek behind the placenta--but I wasn't worried. You're a jokester. This week was a little scary for me, as I started to think about how much about pregnancy is absolutely unknown. Me, the control freak I am, really likes to feel like I can plan for things--I mean, we planned so hard for you. But, even that, was fully out of my control. I've decided this is a great lesson for motherhood--and I just need to get onboard! We did our second half of the birthing class on Zoom and received a certificate in the mail! I put it into your baby book, like your Bubbe put into mine! We will chronical the story of you, so that you never forget, even for a moment, how cherished you are. This week was also Valentines Day! The last one before you're earthside was spent cooking dinner together and holding hands on a long walk. Your daddy and I exchanged cards and cuddled a little extra long in the morning (a perfect day, to me)! Happy Valentines Day, baby. Happy 6 months. Happy, happy, almost here. This was a special week, baby.
We had another check-up with AFA, took our first birthing class on Zoom (3 hours...for part one! It was a doozy) and your first photoshoot, with Auntie Boo (and Bubby assistant)! This weekend, Bubby bought you a book that we picked out together. I started to read it aloud and immediately burst into tears! It was called You Are New. And, gosh, I can't wait to meet you. Your dad and I keep feeling your sweet little kicks--mostly when we're singing you songs on the piano, we're drinking juice, or we're doing our evening bedtime routine. We can't wait for you to join us in our kitchen dances and all the love that's already here for you, earthside. This week, your hair started to grow--it's white now but soon it will be the color you're born with. Do you think you'll have brown hair like mommy or black hair like daddy? Your lungs are hard at work and you're definitely responding to our silly sounds! It feels more and more like you're here, every day. And that's the greatest gift of all! We started ordering cute things for your nursery and even picked your pediatrician this week--and we think you're going to like him! This week started in a terrifying and really grounding way. We got into a car accident baby, and you were jumping around like crazy. Your dad and I panicked. I have never been so scared in my entire life. But we went to the birthing center and checked on you--and you were perfect. You made it easy to find your heartbeat, such a sweet gift--as if to say, hi mommy, I'm okay.
On Thursday, we took a Couples Birth Class and, while we were watching, I had my hand on my belly and you moved around so much it made your daddy and I cry. We love you, sweet baby. This week we've also had a pretty big growth-spurt. I may feel a little like a parade float but, boy, I wouldn't trade that for anything. As long as you're healthy. As long as you're almost here. In our baby app, you are in your final iteration, after months of looking like a little dinosaur and a mini-version of a baby, you are officially coming into your final form before you're earthside. Your skin is now opaque, you're developing tastebuds, and you're over a pound, now. I can't wait to see how you grow in the next few weeks, as we will soon be in the third trimester! Can you believe!? This week, you're the size of a carrot (or, maybe bigger, since you're measuring a week ahead, you overachiever).
Back when you were no more than our greatest wish, we looked for bunnies in the backyard because rabbits were a symbol of fertility. So we sought every sign like a silent prayer and whispered promises. And now you're halfway here. We went from 40 weeks away to 30 weeks away to 20 weeks and now we're counting-down the 10s. And I spend every day grateful. Every day feeling like the luckiest. Even as I walk around, feeling like a parade-float, stretching through my round ligament pain--I have gratitude for this body who is working so hard to make our baby. This week, your skin is wrinkly and translucent as we work diligently to plump you up! Your bone marrow is making blood cells and you have eyelashes and eyebrows. If you have your daddy's eyelashes, they will be impossibly long and dreamy. I can't wait to see them. We started with AFA this week, meeting the midwives and doctors who will bring you earthside and felt much more at peace. It's coming together, sweet boy. And we can't wait to meet you. We're living on a prayer, sweet boy. A prayer that brings you, our miracle, here. This week, you're the size of a banana, my little Chiquito, a bright yellow promise for this future. We finally got to see you again! You're sucking your thumb, yawning, and kicking. And, before we know it, you'll be doing all of these things earthside! Halfway is beyond exciting: The months between now and two different thens: A then where we wished for you, with such full and devastated hearts that we didn't know if the weeks that were to follow would bring us a joy beyond words or if we would never see the sunlight again. And a then where your cries are heard around the world. Where your body rests on my body; both of us, finally, whole. Here. Seeing you this week was beyond any miracle I could have every imagined: Hearing your heartbeat (151 BMP), counting ten fingers and toes, your perfect spine, your sweet little nose, catching you sleeping with one hand behind your head (just like your daddy) watching you dance around once you woke up. Oh, we love you so much already, kiddo. 2o weeks to go! Sunday's snow-storm lingers in the skinny branches of winter trees and on the white ground that surrounds us. It feels pure and promising--like a slate wiped clean. And I can't help but imagine you, six months old, in the sweater we've already collected for you, watching winter with new, pure, eyes full of promise. Sweet boy, the world is so beautiful and will be so much more beautiful, still, when you join us earthside. You're the size of a mango, your legs are longer than your arms and your body is starting to make a whole lot more sense in there. This week, you're developing more regular sleep-patterns. Yesterday, you did a lot of late-night fluttering so I'm hopeful we can get on the same sleep schedule! Sweet boy, you're using most of your energy to gain weight. I'm doing my best to help you! This week you also have start lungs on your to-do list. I can't wait to synchronize our breathing. We are a week from seeing you--and I am anxiously awaiting seeing your sweet little face. Week 18 and you're the size of a pomegranate! I've been filling my belly with seeds for weeks and now you're officially all 512 mitzvot. Holy, happy, and almost halfway-there! This week you're even more of a baby then you were last week! Your body is a mini-version of what it will be when you join us earthside! On the flipside, this week I've started getting lightheaded more frequently and am working hard to drink more water (but water tends to make me throw up...as Max Medina would say, vicious circle). We celebrated my new position this week! I'm so excited for my new role! AND, it's also thrilling that the opportunity is fully virtual and will give me more time with you, baby. With January has come this renewed sense that everything is happening. That this year will be the holiest, happiest, we've ever lived through. We can't wait to meet you, sweet boy. 17 weeks, sweet Belly Boy, and yesterday we celebrated Christmas with homemade pizzas and singing you Christmas Carols. I think you liked them! We can't wait for next year's holiday season and getting to make all of these holiday memories with you! We watched It's A Wonderful Life and, let me tell you, it really is.
This week, you're 17 weeks of pure magic. You're the size of a pear (or a coconut, depending on who you ask). You're practicing your breathing, now, to prepare yourself for earthside and you have fingerprints! I read somewhere that your fingerprints are developed from touching the womb and, if so, how special to know that you'll always carry a piece of now with you. Long after you forget the months we spent taking care of each other, as a singular entity, your fingers will tell the story of this time. I can't wait to kiss them. Over dinner, this week, I started to feel persistent flutters and knew you were reminding me that you're there (as if I could ever forget). This week, between Christmas and New Years, your daddy and I are slow-working, spending days cuddling on the couch while we get our tasks done. We are reading our books and going on long walks (at least 10,000 steps, every day)! Your daddy did his 300th spin class: he is working so hard to be healthy to run around and take care of you forever. Your mommy is only spinning in circles but she has taken to organizing parts of the house for your arrival. We also officially announced your arrival, in 2024. Now, the calendar has changed, we will soon be halfway through this pregnancy, we have picked our doula--and we can't wait to meet you. |
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