Another Baby Building Update: 33 Weeks, 3 Days
Definition: Full-term pregnancy = 37–42 weeks. The average length is 40.
According to my trusty book, baby now weighs about 4.4+ pounds. His crown-to-rump length is about 12 inches and total length is 19.4 inches. From about now and till the end, baby will gain about 1/2 pound per week, which should result in a 7 to 8 pounder. (I’m hoping for 7.)
I now wake up every single hour of the night to pee. I see midnight, 1 a.m., 2 a.m., 3 a.m., 4 a.m., 5 a.m., 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. when I rise for the day. I think of this as baby boot camp. Baby is already training me to be awake at all hours every single night without an end in sight.
I have minor physical complaints such as sore ribs, where I am consistently being kicked, and some abdominal muscle pain. I can only sleep on my sides or my entire lower body loses circulation and starts to tingle. It’s tough to bend down to pick stuff up from the floor, which is challenging considering Lucas ensures that there’s always stuff on the floor. I lost my balance the other night and fell down.
However, I still feel pretty good (when people aren’t being mean to me)! I have no weird or scary medical condition to contend with. Everything is proceeding normally, and let’s hope it continues to do so! The list of problems I don’t have is huge: To mention just a few, I don’t have pregnancy-induced diabetes, twins, pregnancy-induced hypertension, IUGR (intrauterine growth retardation), anemia, cancer, or premature labor. So, yay for me!
We still don’t have a name picked out yet. Nor is the baby stuff we’ve been saving since Lucas was tiny (like diapers, clothes, blankets) clean and put away. We have to make it past Christmas before we can do any of that work. Then, it will be a race against baby’s arrival.
