Week 32

Your Baby

Although your baby will still remain active, his days of trying out for Cirque du Soleil are nearly over. About this time your baby will settle into the head-down position in preparation for birth. Other fascinating facts:

Both you and baby are putting on some serious weight at this point. You’ll probably gain about a pound a week for the next few weeks, with half of that poundage bulking up baby. He’ll likely double his weight in the next eight weeks.

Ever wonder what your baby is doing in there these days? He’s busy blinking, looking around, grabbing things, making faces, practicing his breathing, peeing and listening to everything around him—pretty much exactly what he’ll be doing for the first three months of his life, sans the adoring audience and the flashing camera.

Your baby may (or may not) have a full head of hair now. If she’s a baldy, don’t worry. You can always buy a Baby Toupee or some adhesive barrettes.

By the end of this week, your baby will weigh about 4 pounds and measure over 17 inches long—about the length of a hot pair of above-the-knee boots. Christian Louboutin? Manolo Blahnik? We’re thinking Isaac Mizrahi for Target—you’ve got a nursery to furnish!

via 32 Weeks Pregnant – 3D Pregnancy Calendar

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Two Words this week:

Glucose Test

What is a Glucose Test you ask?

Mom to be had to go down to Lab Corp on Thursday – July 26th, 2012 – in order to take a three-hour test that involved, fasting, not drinking water, and drawing blood four times.

The test runs three hours and mom to be has blood drawn when she gets there, waits an hour, draws more blood, waits another hour, draws even more blood, and then waits another hour before having the last bit of blood drawn.

4 times, that’s right.  I can’t believe a pregnant woman has to go through such extremes in order to be tested for Gestational Diabetes.  It’s crazy.

Mom to be did pretty well though, she’s tough, but it even got to her by the end of it.  Funny thing was, most women give out in the first hour, mom to be made it all the way to the last hour before crashing out.  Tough girl.  I was proud of her.

Then we had a check up that afternoon.  You know what happened there?

Yes, they clipped her finger in order to draw more blood.  It was just a rough day for her, but she held up.

Other than all of that, it is same old same old around here.  Baby to be is getting more responsive to both of us and he is moving like crazy.

That’s it.