You have 12 Weeks, 0 Days to go!
Your due date is April 24, 2009.
Your baby is about two and a half pounds and would be between fifteen and seventeen inches tall if she could stand. Your baby's adrenal glands are producing a chemical which will be made into estriol (a form of estrogen) by the placenta. This estriol is thought to stimulate the production of prolactin by your body, and the prolactin makes you produce milk. So even if your baby comes early, you'll still be able to breastfeed. Each passing week improves the likelihood that your baby will be born strong and healthy. Her brain can detect rhythmic breathing and control body temperature, so she's less likely to need breathing assistance should she be born early. She's growing eyelashes, adding fat, and developing her brain. Because of brain wave activity, researchers have speculated that babies can even dream at this time!
GROW BABY, GROW!
UPDATE: Okay so I had my 28 week doctor's apponitment yesterday. The doc said that my down syndrome screening test that I took back when I was 19 weeks came out negative, so there is no chance that my baby will have anything wrong with it's spine or down syndrome, which is a plus. Also the doctor got my result back for the gestational diabetes test that I did on Monday and I passed that aswell :) very very good news there. He said that I am growing properlly and that the baby's average heart rate is around 134 beats, so the baby is doing good. It is currently on spread from side to side, not head down or breech, just chilling in the middle, which is good, it still has alot of time to choose on how difficult it wants to make labour lol. Unfortanetly the doctor said that it is not likely that I will be getting another ultrasound seeing as how we are doing good and there are no abnormalities, which is a good thing, but I really wanted to get those 3D pics and hopefully find out the sex but oh well, I guess Lesley gets his way, like usual. Anywho I told the doc that I hadn't really felt the bambino move in the last 3 days so he got right on sending me over to the hospital for a non-stress test...which caused me to only have 4 hours of sleep for today, OOF. It was nuts though he said that he wanted to make sure everything was okay just incase I had to deliver today. I was like "Woahhhh" lol its crazy that that is a possiblity now. And when I went to the admitting at the hospital the nurse asked if I was going into labour! Craziness! Then I had to go up and sit with this strap around my belly monitoring contractions and the baby's movement. But I started to get cramps really bad and to my knowledge I guess they were braxton hicks. Scared the F*ck out of me though. They hurt so bad and were really strong, got me scared for labour lol. But as soon as the nurse heard about them she immediately sent for a doctor to check me out. To my luck it was a student who was still training to become a doctor. She came in and barely spoke english and assumed that I would just be ready for a pelvic exam. Honestly, she didn't know what she was freaking doing! All I'm going to say is that she kept on screwing up, the pain was unbearable, and that she should never be allowed to do that to another human being. Anyways after all that and waiting like another 2 hours in the hospital the doctor on call finally came told me that everything looked fine but the swab they took that would determine if I could go into an early labour had gotten contaminated from that other doctor. FOR REAL I WENT THREW THAT FOR NOTHING! I was beyond livid and just wanted to get out of there so he finally let me go home to get another hour of sleep so I got like 4 all together if that. Was NOT a good experience AGAIN at that hospital, I really wish I didn't have to deliever my bambino there... but all of the actual doctors there seem very nice so I guess thats a plus :) Oh ya and so far I gained 29 pounds... a pound a freaking week. I am NOT happy, the nurse didn't believe me she had to weigh me again and still didn't understand it, she kept on saying it made no sense because I'm so skinny lol but still made me feel a little better hopefully its my baby putting on the weight not me :) Anyways have to book another D/A for 2 weeks from now so I will keep you posted.
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