Week 31

Wow! Week 31!!

Fetal Development This Week (per Dr. Goo.gle)

Week 31 of Pregnancy: Activity in the Womb
Your baby's on a roll, measuring an impressive 18 inches and weighing in at more than three pounds. You can still expect your developing baby to gain at least three to five pounds, possibly more, before you two meet.

As far as growth goes, your baby's still on a roll, measuring an impressive 18 inches and weighing in at more than three pounds. At 31 weeks pregnant, you can still expect your baby to gain at least three to five pounds, possibly more, before you two meet.

Your baby's brain is working overtime these days, developing faster than ever. Connections between individual nerve cells are growing at a frenetic clip, and your baby can now perceive information from all five senses. Sure, your baby can't smell anything right now, but that's only because he or she is still submerged in amniotic fluid and needs to be breathing air to get a whiff of anything. Lucky for you — and your baby — yours will be one of the very first scents your baby breathes in, a scent that will quickly become his or her very favorite.

So what's your little dove doing all day while you're busy feathering your nest for his or her arrival? Making faces, hiccuping, swallowing, breathing, pedaling with little hands and feet along your uterine wall, and even sucking his or her thumb. In fact, some babies suck their thumbs so vigorously while in the womb that they're born with a callus on their thumb (what a little sucker!).

This morning I scheduled all the classes - Hospital Tour (10/20) - Breast Feeding (10/15) - Birthing Class (10/19, 10/26, 11/2, 11/9). This is in addition to all the other appts! Yikes - things are starting to hop. Oh wait and we are moving on the 14th? Yep. Well there is still a chance we could move the week before but boy we'd really have to get moving on the whole packing thing! Can you say procrastination?? The only thing I didn't schedule was the baptism class - which is every third Tuesday of the month - 10/20...and then 11/17 which I thought might be pushing it. So we will see if we can do it in December - I wonder if they would have a class 12/15? So right, you know I had to call and make sure - and now we are signed up for that. We just need to call and confirm once Abby is born. Cross that off the list too!

I think Dan is the only one with a doctors appt this week! We are also going to the 3D ultrasound on Thursday night - exciting!! And flu shots this week! Hopefully we can get them at the doctors office but if not the hospital has them free all week. I just don't want to stand in line. Makes my back hurt.

Feeling good - sleep is weird - sleep for 2-3 hours wake up for 2-3 hours - go back to sleep for 2-3 hours. And maybe if its a slow day go back to sleep again for 2 hours :). Using the mask faithfully - and I actually made the call to see what I can do about the masks not staying "tight" to my face all night. Since I am not "due" for a new mask until the end of October they have to have a therapist come and see what the problem is and see if I have the wrong kind of mask or whatnot. My first thought was...ugh...that means I have to clean for someone to come over! Yeah - between the limited packing and just general pulling stuff out and going though bins - having a messy house has been the norm... oh well, I guess it will provide some motivation!

Baby Abby seems to be doing well - shes been moving and grooving - especially at night. Seems to be responding more when we talk to her...lol... I woke her up just talking to her the other night and saying her name. Probably just my imagination but it was cool at the time.