Your baby now weighs about 4 3/4 pounds (like your average cantaloupe) and is almost 18 inches long. Her fat layers — which will help regulate her body temperature once she's born — are filling her out, making her rounder. Her skin is also smoother than ever. Her central nervous system is maturing and her lungs are continuing to mature as well. If you've been nervous about preterm labor, you'll be happy to know that babies born between 34 and 37 weeks who have no other health problems generally do fine. They may need a short stay in the neonatal nursery and may have a few short-term health issues, but in the long run, they usually do as well as full-term babies.
Next appointment is December 28th. They will check out how I am progressing then. I wonder if she's in this for the long haul or if she plans on arriving sooner. Either way, just to be safe, we're starting to get things ready now.
I have been watching these birthing class, breast feeding and infant care DVDs and I laugh so hard because Eliana really responds to her voice. Lol. I think it's the east coast accent the lady has. She starts moving around all crazy.
The house is slowly but surely being taken over by little miss. she's taking over my closet already, too. I don't remember signing up for this. If she were on house hunters on HGTV, she'd probably makes some lame joke right about now, about how the closets are all hers.
I can really feel how she is laying now. One side of my stomach will move and get extremely firm. It is where her butt is poking out. Lol.
Not too much else to report at the moment. I still need to go through and get some photos of the cute little outfits and things we got. Getting really excited and I feel like the time is going to drag on, but we'll see. Work Christmas party is coming up and we have to go to Bakersfield for Christmas. I am sure before we know it, it will be January. :)
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