33 Weeks

Well, this picture is actually from 32 weeks, but close enough.  I may not look like it, but I feel H.U.G.E.  I waddle, I ache, my sciatic nerve is a pain and generally speaking, I'm just ready to be done!  Not much time left, thankfully!

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.


So, she's a pineapple.  We had an appointment last week and our doctor thinks she's a little bigger than right now.  She's measuring about a week ahead, but that may even out so we'll see.