The Derrick Baby: IT'S A GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

IT'S A GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm so happy and pleased to say that we are having a PRINCESS!! I'm still in shock, thinking that I'm gonna wake up from this dream! She is such a little lady in mommy's tummy, with her little legs crossed the whole time. They had to make me change positions and shake her, so she would uncross her legs. Her heartrate is 140 bpm and the technician said she measured 50/50 which she said means PERFECT measurements!

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GmaKimAugust 3, 2010 at 1:51 PM
So happy for yawl and the family. We needed another girl!!!!
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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.