The Derrick Baby: October 2010

Sunday, October 3, 2010

4D Ultrasound Pics

EYES CLOSED

EYES OPEN

These were the only shots she would let us get but she is such a pretty girl, I can't wait till she gets here. These 4D images were taken at 29 weeks and I'm now 33 weeks. The COUNTDOWN begins, we only have 6 weeks left!!!!!

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.