Grow baby grow!Before I begin this post, I want to take a second to recognize all of the strong children who were born prematurely and the parents and medical teams who cared for them! Last week, I learned about World Prematurity Day and saw just how many of my friends had their babies early. This came on the same day I watched that new show on TLC about the quintuplets for the first time. I was 28 weeks + 2 days that day and these quints were born at 28 + 2!
At 24 weeks, a pregnancy is considered viable. The baby may survive the 50/50 chance, but it comes with significant health risks. By week 28, however, the chances of baby's survival increase to 90-95% although organs are not completely formed yet. These quints were sooo tiny and each born with a heart murmur, one with a collapsed lung, and one with Nystagmus. Needless to say, I got very emotional watching it and couldn't imagine giving birth that day...knowing how little and helpless my baby would be! But they did survive, and after 3 more months in the hospital, they each got to go home!
As I said in the last post, now that I'm in my 3rd trimester, I'm seeing the doctor now every 2 weeks. We won't have another US unless she sees a slow in baby bump growth, decreased baby kicking, or I have (knock on wood) a medical concern or complication between now and January. So hang on there baby, you're not done bakin' yet!
Baby's size: The size of an eggplant and pushing 3 lb!
Total weight gain: 14 lb...I am feeling so round these days! I stepped onto a high bench to move a curtain yesterday and felt a new sense of gravitational pull weighing me down haha
How do you feel? It's getting harder to get up quickly, and I'm starting to feel a general body discomfort which makes me irritable more easily. Laying flat on my back is impossibly painful after just a few minutes and I miss laying on my stomach! Sleeping is still comfortable as long as I'm on my side, although I don't always sleep through the whole night without waking up. I find myself short of breath after doing minimal tasks, and feel like my heart is racing for no reason sometimes. Ugh.
Nursery progress: It's in a bit of disarray and is looking worse before it's going to look better! I pulled the dresser out of the room and spent the weekend repainting it white. I really love the way it turned out, and plan on hanging some floating shelves above it. Nesting phase has arrived in full force and I'm feeling compelled to pay for someone to come in and just do a deep clean. Still need to find (or make) a slipcover for the glider, and dad and I are planning out the closet update.
Moment of the week: Mathias got to feel baby hiccups last night!! I've only felt them once a week for the past 3 weeks, and it was so awesome to have Mathias catch one of these miracle moments!
I have the next few days off and boy do I need it! We are travelling back to WV for Thanksgiving and his parents are hosting our first baby shower this weekend! I am super excited :-D
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