Week 31

Your Baby (replace she with he)

From this week on, your baby will continue to gain around ½ pound a week until shortly before birth (even though it may feel like a whole lot more with every step you take). Other highlights this week:

Due to increasing space constraints, your baby’s arms and legs stay drawn up close to the body now, known as the fetal position (oh, so that’s where that name came from!). Plus, your baby can now process information from all five senses—so she’ll be all set to smell the pureed peas, taste them, feel them as she mashes them into her hair, hear you crack up and then see the flash as you grab the camera to snap picture after picture.

By now, your baby’s lungs are the only system not fully mature. And by mature, we’re not saying that the rest of your baby’s systems are mature enough to be out past 10 PM with the neighborhood hooligan, just that her lungs need a little bit more time to bake before they can kick it in the outside world.

Your baby weighs about 3½ pounds and measures a little over 16 inches, about the same length as that miniskirt you used to wear (and will again someday!).

via 31 Weeks Pregnant – 3D Pregnancy Calendar

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Not much this week.

Just more of the same.

I can’t believe we are now down in the single digits – 9 weeks to go according to the 3D Pregnancy website.

Mom to be and baby to be are doing fine.  Baby to be is moving around quite a bit now, doing whatever it is babies do inside the womb.

So far so good.

That’s it.