Kathryn, it feels like there's such a short time until you're here, and yet it seems so long. It still could be three months/12 weeks before you're here, but it's 10 weeks until your due date and we are now starting the eighth month of pregnancy.
By the end of this week you'll be 16-18 inches long. You'll weigh about 3.3 pounds (about four naval oranges) and you're heading into a growth spurt. You can turn your head side to side and fat is accumulating on your limbs. You've been making trillions of brain connections and can now process information, track light, and perceive signals from all five senses. We love you very much.
You've been moving a lot, but I still feel like you are head up. I would feel better if you were head down, but I know there's still four weeks before I need to start thinking of doing exercises to make you turn. Not only do you kick, punch and roll, but sometimes you seem to shudder.
I had a lot of pain in my abdomen, almost like cramping, on Tuesday and again today. It got my attention, but I feel it's probably tummy trouble and not something more serious. I'm also going to the bathroom more, have a couple areas of varicose veins, have occasional headaches and I'm fairly fatigued, even doing easy things. I'm having a little trouble sleeping, mostly due to sleeping on my sides--it hurts to keep sleeping on one side, and it takes so much effort to turn over that it wakes me up.
I've been very productive at home this week, after finishing out my time as a teaching assistant at Lockhart last Friday. I heard today that the new assistant--the woman who was supposed to take my place--isn't being hired at all. I feel bad for the new teacher that I left behind because I know that class is incredibly hard with two adults in the room--much harder with just one! But, I'm in a much better place now. The only hard part left is changing insurance providers--such a pain.
Our next appointment is in one week and our couples' shower is in a little more than two weeks!
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