Everybody take out a tape measure and mark off 15 inches. Now lay this across your abdomen. This is why there are times when I can feel little jolts along my ribs and my groin at once! Even with my rounded belly, I have trouble believing that something so long has room to hang out in there. But he still has about 5 or so inches to go in the next 11 weeks.
This week marked the passage of a very important day for us--our last wedding anniversary as a twosome, on August 12! We were just out of undergrad and were fairly young when we tied the knot in our little college town of Kirksville, but the decision was one of the best of our lives. We've had 9 YEARS of adventures together, some challenging, many exciting. And now we have years of memories to share with the Short Stranger.
Being the awesome husband that he is, Mike gave me the perfect pregancy gift this time around--an afternoon at the spa that included a prenatal massage! Pure heaven--something I recommend to anyone out there who's suffering their way through the third trimester.
This week on babycenter.com, I get a dietary lecture:
Your baby now weighs about 2 1/2 pounds (like a butternut squash) and is a tad over 15 inches long from head to heel. His muscles and lungs are continuing to mature, and his head is growing bigger to make room for his developing brain. To meet his increasing nutritional demands, you'll need plenty of protein, vitamins C, folic acid, and iron. And because his bones are soaking up lots of calcium, be sure to drink your milk (or find another good source of calcium, such as cheese, yogurt, or enriched orange juice). This trimester, about 250 milligrams of calcium are deposited in your baby's hardening skeleton each day.
So I'm off to the farmer's market to find some of those Vitamin C and iron-rich foods!
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