Skip to main content

Happy 35/35!

Image
By
For the past several months, I've been following a few of the discussion groups on TheBump.com. Reading these posts has helped me learn a lot about pregnancy, particularly from other women due around the same time as me. One of the milestones that is often celebrated within these discussion groups is the 35/35, or 35 weeks down, 35 days until due date. So, today is my 35/35! Wohoo!

I had my two NST appointments again this week. Both showed Baby is healthy and my contractions remain fairly calm. I've gained 25 pounds through this pregnancy, which puts me right on track for healthy weight gain. My blood pressure was low as always (98/60 on Thursday). As the nurse was strapping me into the fetal monitors, feeling my belly, she commented that it seemed baby had dropped a bit. I know it could still be several weeks until baby's debut, but this is another sign of progress towards delivery.

Thursday morning I also had a growth ultrasound. The tech tried to get another picture of Baby's face, but he kept his hand in the way the whole time. Also, he was certainly showing off his practice breathing that we were waiting so patiently for during the last two ultrasounds. After measuring baby's head circumference, abdomen and femur length, the doctor was able to estimate baby's current weight at 5 pounds, 10 ounces, which puts Baby in the 66th percentile. Dr. Williams was very happy with the estimates and baby's growth. According to What to Expect When You're Expecting, baby should gain about half a pound each week until delivery. If Baby Davolt follows that trend, then we can expect a baby between 7-8 pounds. Then again, these are all just educated guesses!

Since I first posted pictures of Baby's room, we've added some things that bring the room to life a bit. Jeff hung navy blue curtains, and installed the floating shelves above the dresser. I received the fabulous cardboard cut out animals at my first baby shower with Jeff's family. On the floating shelves is a tiger and lion, while the elephant and giraffe are on the small bookshelf. The books were also a gift from the shower; each guest brought one to start a library for Baby Davolt.

During my free time this week, I worked on two craft projects. First, I made the paper triangle banner that is hanging above the crib. I had planned to use some stickers to decorate each triangle, but then decided I like the look of the simple papers. Second, I folded ten paper cranes from the same blue paper. When I was a teenager, I folded cranes and hung them from my ceiling for years. Since becoming pregnant, I knew I wanted to create a mobile using paper cranes. So now they are folded and threaded to be hung.



Coming Up:
  • NST's on Monday and Thursday
  • Final class on Thursday night (breastfeeding wrap up)
  • Baby shower on Saturday: A dear friend, Vicki is hosting and I'm excited to see my friends and just plain have some social time!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Tradition

By
At no other time of the year do I think about "tradition" more than during the holidays, from Thanksgiving through Christmas. I do like the sense of timelessness that traditions afford, reminding us of past Christmases and the people or places we cherish most. As much as I love the traditions of years past and years to come, I think it's healthy to miss or change traditions every now and then. My own childhood was filled with traditions for Thanksgiving and Christmas, as was Jeff's, but I also recall the experiences when traditions were put on hold or changed, sometimes intentionally, and sometimes for reasons beyond our control. I suppose it's the same for all of us as we grow, move, lose, and gain. Not that I go out of my way to disrupt any plans for my family now, but rather, to remind us that life doesn't always go the way it has before and we can enjoy the time together no matter what. Having our own family caused Jeff and I to decide on what would be...
Post a Comment
Read more

Christmas 2020

By
Have yourself a merry little Christmas Let your heart be light From now on Our troubles will be out of sight As a result of the pandemic, the model train festival we typically enjoy this time of year was canceled (thus no pictures with Santa). We missed family and friends this year. The fun energy of the last few school days before Winter Break was not quite the same over Zoom. I missed singing carols in church during month of December.  As the season progressed, I couldn't help but reflect on other times in history where celebrations were small and often just a nuclear family. Times and places where travel was too difficult or too expensive to justify leaving home. For those generations of families, the traditions were as simple as reading the Christmas story together or baking a special bread. In so many ways that was our Christmas this year and by seeking the joy in each moment, we found our hearts lighter.  We visited our favorite local tree farm to find THE TREE.  We...
1 comment
Read more

Raising Boys

By
I absolutely love having two boys.  There is an energy and excitement that definitely keeps me young.  When meeting other parents with all boys there is always an unacknowledged kinship and assumption that we deal with the same rowdiness, crudeness and overall chaos that is a house of young boys.  For six years now I have always said I am so thankful to have all boys rather than girls.  There is this assumption that boys are so much easier than girls.  That as a father girls are so much scarier.  That things like braiding hair, princesses and unicorns, teenage love, menstrual cycles, and protecting sexual innocence are so much harder for a father to navigate as a parent of a female.  But what if this assumption that boys are easier, that they are less work, that boys are not as high maintenance to parent as girls is partly responsible for toxic masculinity and so many of our societal problems that can be traced back to the patriarchy? I think about...
Post a Comment
Read more