Week 29

Having a baby prematurely is frightening, no doubt. But here’s a reason to relax: Due to the impressive advancements of medical technology, if your baby is born this week, she’d have a 9 out of 10 chance of survival, which is seriously great news. Other awesome developments:

Baby’s brain can now control her breathing and body temperature. She can also cough, and her sucking abilities have been perfected. Look out, boobs!

Your Mini’s skin is looking less wrinkled as she packs on the pounds. She’s starting to look more like a Pampers model and less like a Depends model. She’s now beefing up on the energizing and insulating white fat she’ll be born with (unfortunately, white fat is not energizing and insulating for adults!).

And speaking of energy, your little Energizer Bunny is on fire these days. You’re sure to feel your share of kicks, punches and elbows, especially when you’re lying down. You might want to start keeping a kick chart to monitor your baby’s movements, and also to later show your 13-year-old child what you endured for him or her. Ask your doctor how to count kicks and how often you should do it.

This week your baby is a little over 15 inches long—about the length of a loaf of bread—and weighs about 3 pounds, as much as a Macbook Air laptop.

via 29 Weeks Pregnant – 3D Pregnancy Calendar

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There’s not a lot going on this week with mom and baby.  We have crossed into the third trimester so all we need to do now is keep both of them healthy.  This is really the growing and showing stage.  Everything is supposed to increase over the weeks up until the birth.

I have started to learn a lot more about what goes into a delivery.  It isn’t as simple as the movies and TV shows make it out to be.  There are a lot of things to decide on, not only for the mother, but for the father as well.

We did get away for a small Babymoon this week to Ocean Isle Beach, N.C.  It was a nice chance to get away from the hustle and bustle of day-to-day life.  A nice way for me and mom to be to have a few days just to reconnect.  The trip was fun, a bit noisier than we would have liked, but overall it was nice to get back to the ocean.   Technically this is our first of two Babymoons before the baby arrives.  The second one will be a trip to the mountains in August.

That’s it.