Despite living in Texas and having basically two seasons—hot and very hot, there is a sense of fall in the air. I love the fall-the decorations, the pumpkins, the fall-exclusive food items, and well, my mom’s cinnamon chunky applesauce! Well, tis the season for fall, and we open our arms to embrace our two little butternut squashes this week! Now at 29 weeks, the babies are about the size of a butternut squash, weighing in at about 2 ½ pounds and measuring about 15 inches in length. So now, we total about 5 pounds of baby!
Phew, we have made it through the monumental 28 week mark and we continue to look ahead at our next mile-marker—30 weeks (and I can’t lie, I look forward to that scrumptious cupcake too!). One important development during this last trimester is packing on the weight—for the babies, and hopefully not too much more on me! Haha. They started out with a brown fat which gets metabolized to keep them warm if they are born early, but now it is starting to change over to white fat. This fat is the cute fat that makes you just want to grab a little baby’s cheeks. Right now, about 4% of the baby’s weight is composed of white fat. Needless to say, they got a lot of bulking up to do! The next few weeks are very important for lung, brain, and intestinal development. So we continue to wait with hope...hoping that these babies will have at least until 34 weeks to grow, grow, and grow some more!
This past week my work friends were super sweet to throw me a baby shower. Despite missing the first shower they planned, they were gracious enough to try again and come over and hang out with me. It was great to hang out with my friends and catch up on all the festivities that I’m missing at work. We have a lot of exciting developments at work because we plan to be flying in the helicopter again by November 1st—hmmm, that date ring a bell to anyone? Trust me, I’ll be on cloud nine if we can hang in there until November…and my friends, well, they will be in the clouds too!
Jay has not only been busy working his normal schedule, but also being the wife, and taking care of me too—talk about a busy guy! He has been busily working in the nursery and in a few more weeks we will be able to post pictures. Not to anyone’s surprise, but he has been my “everything!” See you next week at our next milestone marker….30 weeks here we come!
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