How your baby's growing:This week your baby weighs a little over 4 pounds (heft a pineapple) and has passed the 17-inch mark. He's rapidly losing that wrinkled, alien look and his skeleton is hardening. The bones in his skull aren't fused together, which allows them to move and slightly overlap, thus making it easier for him to fit through the birth canal. (The pressure on the head during birth is so intense that many babies are born with a conehead-like appearance.) These bones don't entirely fuse until early adulthood, so they can grow as his brain and other tissue expands during infancy and childhood.
Update: My doctors appointments went pretty good this week. My bp was a little up on tuesday, 150/100, so they upped my dosage to the final dose, and it was good when I went in on thursday, 130/88. We are almost at the 34 week mark, and my regular doctor wants to try to push it as close to the 37 as possible. But, he said if I come in next week and my bp is high, he will deliver me then. So, anytime between now and 4 weeks. Not much longer at all. I can't believe we are already on the countdown. I am feeling pretty good since they gave me medicine for the headaches. Oh Oh....and my one of my sono's this week showed that he is about 4 pounds 11 ounces!! What a whopper!! And in both sono's this week he was practicing his breathing like crazy! So, we know the steriod shots have helped!!
Anyway, I hope everyone has a wonderful 4th of july!
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