29 Weeks, 6 Days
29 Weeks, 6 Days
Fun Baby Facts:
Baby girl now weighs about 2 1/2 pounds (like a butternut squash) and is a tad over 15 inches long from head to heel. Her muscles and lungs are continuing to mature, and her head is growing bigger to make room for her developing brain. This trimester, about 250 milligrams of calcium are deposited in her hardening skeleton each day.
She can open her eyes and will turn her head towards a source of any light. Her sensory organs are well developed. Her fingernails and toenails are growing and she is beginning to regulate her own temperature. The bone marrow is completely in charge of production of the red blood cells now. (www.babycenter.com)
How Am I Doing?
I experienced my daughter's foot lodged under my rib cage for the first time this week. I was in the middle of doing a security briefing with a new employee at work on Monday, when she stretched and put her foot under my ribs. This totally caught me off guard and made me jump straight up out of my chair. I had to excuse myself from the briefing to walk around the office for a minute to try to get her out because I was in pain. I apologized to the poor guy I just left sitting in my office...he just shook his head and laughed at me.
Her movements are getting more and more forceful. A few days ago I was laying on the couch with my laptop on my lap. She began kicking and if I hadn't been holding my onto the computer, she would've kicked it right off my belly.
I am beginning to notice that there are things that are becoming more and more difficult for me to do. For example, my measuring cups are in a cabinet that is above our microwave...it's getting harder for me to get them down because my tummy gets in the way. Today I stopped by Moe's to get some lunch on my way home from church, I had to ask someone to get a lid for my cup from the back of the counter because I couldn't reach them...lol! It was slightly embarrassing, but sort of humorous at the same time!
One of the questions we keep getting asked is whether we've picked a name yet. So, for all you who keep asking...no, we have not settled on a name yet. We have decided on her middle name, but her first name has yet to be decided. Once we do know her name, it will be kept a secret until she is born. Sorry to everyone who really wants to know...we have to keep some part of this a surprise! Plus, to be honest, I'd like to spare myself from people's opinions on the name we pick. Sorry! What ever name we do decide on, it will definitely be one that we've prayed over and ut lots of thought into. Ray and I both believe that naming your child is a way of prophesying over them. We won't pick a name that doesn't have a positive meaning for something that we are believing God for with our daughter.
Some other questions we continually get are things like: 1. Are you going to breastfeed; 2. Are you having a natural birth or are you being drugged; 3. Is your nursery set up and ready for her; 4. How much weight have you gained. What's really funny to me is that some of these questions are ones I've gotten from random people in the grocery store. WEIRDO's! But to answer some of them for you all...
1. Am I breastfeeding...Yes!
2. Natural vs. Medicated (I used "drugged" above, because I actually had a women in Trader Joe's come up and ask me last week if I was going to be drugged for my daughter's birth...I didn't answer her, in fact, I just turned around and walked away.) Anyways...We are planning for a natural birth...in a hospital. I say "we" because it's a decision that Ray and I have made together. This decision affects both of us, not just me. He's the one who gets to be with me as I am having contractions and working through labor pains. I am very grateful for such a supportive husband!
3. Is the baby's room/nursery put together? Nope, it's not. Why? Well, because we haven't allowed ourselves to buy anything yet. Trust me...I want to, but we're waiting. Some friends are throwing us a baby shower next month, so we're holding out for that AND we don't know where we will be living yet. Why would I want to set up a nursery in the house we're in now, just to have to pack it and move it before baby girl arrives?! So, no, we are not set up yet.
Tomorrow morning I have another ultrasound. Ray is still overseas, so a great friend of mine is joining me tomorrow morning. I miss my husband greatly when he's traveling. However, I am so blessed by the community of people we have surrounding us...Not a day has gone by since Ray's been gone, that someone hasn't called just to check on me. It often seems that I am busier when Ray is gone, then when he's here, because our friends are so quick to make sure I am taken care of. I can't even begin to say how much this is a blessing. We are truly blessed and I can't wait for our daughter to see what living in community with God-centered relationships is like. I can't wait for her to meet all the people who already love her!
Praying for each of you,
Ray, Summer & Baby Girl
Baby girl now weighs about 2 1/2 pounds (like a butternut squash) and is a tad over 15 inches long from head to heel. Her muscles and lungs are continuing to mature, and her head is growing bigger to make room for her developing brain. This trimester, about 250 milligrams of calcium are deposited in her hardening skeleton each day.
She can open her eyes and will turn her head towards a source of any light. Her sensory organs are well developed. Her fingernails and toenails are growing and she is beginning to regulate her own temperature. The bone marrow is completely in charge of production of the red blood cells now. (www.babycenter.com)
How Am I Doing?
I experienced my daughter's foot lodged under my rib cage for the first time this week. I was in the middle of doing a security briefing with a new employee at work on Monday, when she stretched and put her foot under my ribs. This totally caught me off guard and made me jump straight up out of my chair. I had to excuse myself from the briefing to walk around the office for a minute to try to get her out because I was in pain. I apologized to the poor guy I just left sitting in my office...he just shook his head and laughed at me.
Her movements are getting more and more forceful. A few days ago I was laying on the couch with my laptop on my lap. She began kicking and if I hadn't been holding my onto the computer, she would've kicked it right off my belly.
I am beginning to notice that there are things that are becoming more and more difficult for me to do. For example, my measuring cups are in a cabinet that is above our microwave...it's getting harder for me to get them down because my tummy gets in the way. Today I stopped by Moe's to get some lunch on my way home from church, I had to ask someone to get a lid for my cup from the back of the counter because I couldn't reach them...lol! It was slightly embarrassing, but sort of humorous at the same time!
One of the questions we keep getting asked is whether we've picked a name yet. So, for all you who keep asking...no, we have not settled on a name yet. We have decided on her middle name, but her first name has yet to be decided. Once we do know her name, it will be kept a secret until she is born. Sorry to everyone who really wants to know...we have to keep some part of this a surprise! Plus, to be honest, I'd like to spare myself from people's opinions on the name we pick. Sorry! What ever name we do decide on, it will definitely be one that we've prayed over and ut lots of thought into. Ray and I both believe that naming your child is a way of prophesying over them. We won't pick a name that doesn't have a positive meaning for something that we are believing God for with our daughter.
Some other questions we continually get are things like: 1. Are you going to breastfeed; 2. Are you having a natural birth or are you being drugged; 3. Is your nursery set up and ready for her; 4. How much weight have you gained. What's really funny to me is that some of these questions are ones I've gotten from random people in the grocery store. WEIRDO's! But to answer some of them for you all...
1. Am I breastfeeding...Yes!
2. Natural vs. Medicated (I used "drugged" above, because I actually had a women in Trader Joe's come up and ask me last week if I was going to be drugged for my daughter's birth...I didn't answer her, in fact, I just turned around and walked away.) Anyways...We are planning for a natural birth...in a hospital. I say "we" because it's a decision that Ray and I have made together. This decision affects both of us, not just me. He's the one who gets to be with me as I am having contractions and working through labor pains. I am very grateful for such a supportive husband!
3. Is the baby's room/nursery put together? Nope, it's not. Why? Well, because we haven't allowed ourselves to buy anything yet. Trust me...I want to, but we're waiting. Some friends are throwing us a baby shower next month, so we're holding out for that AND we don't know where we will be living yet. Why would I want to set up a nursery in the house we're in now, just to have to pack it and move it before baby girl arrives?! So, no, we are not set up yet.
Tomorrow morning I have another ultrasound. Ray is still overseas, so a great friend of mine is joining me tomorrow morning. I miss my husband greatly when he's traveling. However, I am so blessed by the community of people we have surrounding us...Not a day has gone by since Ray's been gone, that someone hasn't called just to check on me. It often seems that I am busier when Ray is gone, then when he's here, because our friends are so quick to make sure I am taken care of. I can't even begin to say how much this is a blessing. We are truly blessed and I can't wait for our daughter to see what living in community with God-centered relationships is like. I can't wait for her to meet all the people who already love her!
Praying for each of you,
Ray, Summer & Baby Girl
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