33 Weeks!

Well we had a very busy day yesterday but it got me excited. We went to tour the maternity ward at our hospital. The hospital was nice and the rooms were very spacious. I have to say that although I want my baby girl to stay in there a while longer I am very anxious to meet her. I been feeling contractions more often now, and some can be pretty painful. I had the doctor check me at my appointment yesterday and she said that I am still closed up, which is a relief to me.

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.