The Derrick Baby: Anxiously waiting.........

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Anxiously waiting.........

Today makes 18 weeks and 3 days and tomorrow is the BIG day. I can't wait to find out if we are having a girl or a boy, either way I won't be upset. Just wanna start being able to buy things and get prepared. It's 10:16am and I'm the only one up, Howard stayed up till about 5:30am writing a 12 pg essay for school and I woke up off and on with him. I woke up once around 5am when he was almost done and we were both hungry so he warmed us up some Papa Johns leftover pizza and we laid in the bed and ate pizza like 2 prego people LOL. Well, today is another lazy day like every other day for the last 4 1/2 months (I'm really gonna need my energy back soon). Maybe I can use tomorrow's ultrasound as motivation to clean my house......

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GmaKimJune 22, 2010 at 1:21 PM
Make sure you post right away if we are having a baby girl or a baby boy.
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AnonymousJune 22, 2010 at 8:34 PM
I will, don't worry :-)
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How The Baby Is Growing This Week - 36 weeks

Your baby is still packing on the pounds — at the rate of about an ounce a day. She now weighs almost 6 pounds (like a crenshaw melon) and is more than 18 1/2 inches long. She's shedding most of the downy covering of hair that covered her body as well as the vernix caseosa, the waxy substance that covered and protected her skin during her nine-month amniotic bath. Your baby swallows both of these substances, along with other secretions, resulting in a blackish mixture, called meconium, will form the contents of her first bowel movement. At the end of this week, your baby will be considered full-term. (Full-term is 37 to 42 weeks; babies born before 37 weeks are pre-term and those born after 42 are post-term.) Most likely she's in a head-down position. But if she isn't, your practitioner may suggest scheduling an "external cephalic version," which is a fancy way of saying she'll try to coax your baby into a head-down position by manipulating her from the outside of your belly.