The Nursery is Coming Together...

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Week 21!

Our baby girl now weighs about three-quarters of a pound and is approximately 10 1/2 inches long. She is really on the move now. Fetal researchers say babies move about 50 times an hour even while sleeping. All that movement helps stimulate your baby's physical and mental development. I don't really notice 50 kicks, punches, and twirls during the day, but when I settle down at night, our little girl seems ready to dance the night away!

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We Had Another Ultra Sound!

We wanted to confirm that she is a girl
before we are neck-deep in pink stuff!
She's definately a girl! Click on the album below to see pictures...

UltraSound Pics 4.26.07

Toilet Paper Tuesday!

How many squares of toilet paper does it take to circle my belly?

10!

Week 20!

We're at the halfway mark! Our baby weighs about 10 1/2 ounces now. She's about 10 inches from head to heel. A greasy white substance called vernix caseosa coats your baby's entire body to protect her skin during its long submersion in amniotic fluid.

I Can Still See My Feet!

It's a Girl!

UltraSound Pictures April 2007

Daddy and Mommy were full of tears as we watched our beautiful baby girl dance across the screen! She's very active and very healthy! We have tons of new ultrasound pictures to see! Click on the picture to see the whole album.

Toilet Paper Tuesday!

How many squares of toilet paper does it take to circle my belly?

9 1/2!

Week 19!

Our baby weighs about 8 1/2 ounces, and she measures 6 inches, head to bottom — about the length of a small zucchini. The hair on her scalp is sprouting. If our baby is a girl, she already has 6 million eggs in her ovaries. This is a crucial time for sensory development: Your baby's brain is designating specialized areas for smell, taste, hearing, vision, and touch. She may be able to hear you as you talk. Research shows that she's learning to distinguish my voice from others, and she'll soon show a preference for it.

Baby Was Doing Her Morning Exercises!

This morning, Baby was doing jumping jacks! I could feel it clear as day. I woke daddy up and put his hand on my belly, he felt it too! It's official! We have external validation, other than the fact that I am gaining weight!

Toilet Paper Tuesday!

How many squares of toilet paper does it take to circle my belly?

9!

Week 18!

Head to bottom, our baby is approximately 5 1/2 inches long (about the length of a large sweet potato), and she weighs almost 7 ounces. She's busy flexing her arms and legs — movements that I will hopefully start noticing more and more. Myelin (a protective covering) is beginning to form around her nerves, a process that will continue for a year after she's born.

We Will Never Forget September 11th...

Our baby is due on September 11th. Maybe having a new life on the 11th will be something good to remember on such a horrific day. From death comes life. I try to remember that. Our baby will not know or truly understand 9-11. (at least for a long time) And if she decides to come on that day, it will be a happy day for me and my family. I will always remember where I was on 9-11, nothing will erase that day. But, maybe having new life will make it easier to have different memories.

What if the Sonogram is Wrong?

DEAR ABBY: My daughter recently had a baby boy. Mother and baby are doing fine, but the problem is the sonogram during pregnancy showed a baby girl, according to the doctor. So now our grandson has a slew of pink blankets, jammies and clothes given by friends before little Jack was born. I say, no big deal.

My wife says it is a big deal. No way a boy should be dressed in pink. She's worried the color will give the wrong message to people, who will then treat our grandson like a girl in a way they won't even be aware of, even though they're told he's a boy. She worries that this will somehow make him a cross-dresser when he's grown up and make him gay.

Our daughter and son-in-law are in a quandary, too, over the pink clothes. What do you think? -- JACK'S GRANDPA IN GUERNEVILLE, CALIF.

DEAR GRANDPA: As long as the baby gifts have not been used, there should be no problem exchanging them for items in the "right" color.

However, please tell your wife that her fears are groundless. Even if her grandson decides to become a cross-dresser later in life -- which, by the way is NOT related to what color clothes a man wore as a baby -- it won't make him gay. The majority of cross-dressers are heterosexual.

Week 17!

Our baby weighs about 5 ounces now, and she's around 5 inches long — about the size of a large onion. The umbilical cord, her lifeline to the placenta, is growing stronger and thicker. Our baby can move her joints, and her skeleton, rubbery cartilage — is starting to harden into bone. Some of it will remain cartilage for years after she's born. A newborn's skeleton has 300 parts (a combination of bone and cartilage). As our child grows, some of these parts harden and fuse together. By the time our baby reaches adulthood, she'll have just 206 bones!