Week 33

From Dr. Gogg.le:

This week your baby may be anywhere between 17 to 19 inches in length and weigh more than four and a half pounds. At this stage in fetal development, your baby could grow a full inch more this week alone — especially if he or she has been on the shorter side. Weight gain can range from a third more growth to a full doubling before the big debut.

The level of amniotic fluid in your uterus has reached its maximum at 33 weeks pregnant, making it likely that you have more baby than fluid now. That's one reason why you're probably feeling lots of nudges and pushes — there's less liquid to cushion the blows. (Of course that means you're even closer to your baby now!)

If your uterine walls had eyes, here's what you'd see: your fetus acting more and more like a baby, with his or her eyes closing during sleep and opening while awake. And because those uterine walls are becoming thinner, more light penetrates the womb, helping your baby differentiate between day and night (now if only baby can remember that difference on the outside!).

And good news! Your baby has reached an important milestone about now: The development of his or her own immune system that (along with antibodies from you) will be able to provide protection from mild infections.

From Julie:

Well my guess is that she is closer to 5 lbs now - since she was almost 4 and a half last week when we went to the doctor. Feeling lots of movement at times and other times I know she must be asleep. Yesterday I went to bed at 11-11:30 and woke up at 1:20...and didn't go back to sleep until 7:30 in the morning. That sucked. There were at least two different times I tried to go back to sleep and was kept awake by Miss Abby rocking and rolling around. I will say that sometimes it does hurt now - or it feels like she is trying to leave manually. She had an amazing 10+ minute session of just moving and kicking and "I don't know what she was doing" session one of the times I tried to go back to sleep. It was really long!

I love that she responds to our voices or even the phone ringing when it was right next to me. I know it sounds weird but I almost think she knows her name...obviously I talk during the day and she doesn't move every time I do that but when I say her name over and over (maybe 5 or 6 times) she will start to move around...more times than not. Maybe its the way I am saying it that she is recognizing but still its cool.

We were showered with gifts on Sunday at our amazing baby shower from our wonderful family. We are so blessed with lots of family and friends who love us. I know we can't thank them enough!

I don't have a lot of pictures from my camera but honestly I would rather not post a picture of myself at this point. OMG I am so fat. I don't have a double chin, I have a second neck or something. If I hadn't been pregnant I would have deleted any picture with me in it. Since I am, I saved them for Abby but still I was temped. Most of the time I don't think I look pregnant just huge. BUT while I want to never leave the house until this is gone, I will say that I don't care in the sense that we get Abby out of it, which makes anything worth it. BUT I will be happy to be off this much insulin and not feel like I am a fat making machine because of it.

We are moving in about a week - are we ready? Not so much but we'll get it done - now I wish we were staying until Nov 1st but I think we'd still be procrastinating anyway. Hate moving. Ugh. But as long as Abby holds out we'll be good.

Just a NST on Wednesday... will keep you posted :)