Greetings Everyone,
Welcome to our 24th week of pregnancy. Beth and baby are doing great. Dad is another story. I am always nervous and anxious. I find myself asking Beth, a few times a day, if he is moving and ok…I know this is starting to drive Beth nuts (sorry babe). I am trying really hard to quell this anxiety. I know deep down that everything is going to be just fine and we are going to give birth to a healthy baby boy. Now, I just have to bring that to the front of my thought processes.
Alright, enough with the psychoses…
It seems that our little man is on the move a lot during the day. Every time he kicks or moves, Beth can see her belly move. It is truly amazing. We are anxiously awaiting the hiccups. Apparently, fetal hiccups are a really cool thing to see. On average, they begin sometime after 20 weeks. They don’t start until the baby’s nervous system is well developed to allow the reflex of hiccupping to occur. The hiccups are thought to result from the baby drinking/breathing amniotic fluid. So what happens is this: when the baby experiences a bout of hiccups, you can see the woman’s belly bounce and shake in a very regular rhythmic fashion. It is suppose to look and feel different than kicks or moves. We are really excited for this to happen.
Here are a few things going on with the boy this week:
He is working hard learning how to breath and putting on weight/baby fat. This week alone, he will gain ½ pound.
His ears and auditory system are fully developed now (we have to keep the books and the music coming). This also means the baby’s inner ear is fully developed meaning he has balance and can sense spatial orientation (“…am I upside down or right-side up?”).
He is about the length of a foot-long Chicago-style hotdog (…mmmmmmm) and weighs about 1 1/3 pounds.
That’s all for now folks. Have a good one!
The Lacnys
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