39 Weeks Making You... When Are You Coming Out?

(www.3dpregnancy.com) Your baby is now completely ready to be born. He is 19 inches long (49 cm) and just over 7 pounds (3300 grams). He is lying low within your abdomen and pressing heavily on the cervix. Fortunately his bones are very supple so that they can easily adapt during the birth in the narrow birth canal. His head can also easily fit through because the skull bones are not fused and can compress. Moreover, there are openings between the bones. You can feel these openings, the fontanelles, very easily during the first year of your baby's life. You can see his heart beating under the skin. This area is covered with a thick membrane but it is still not bone - be careful of this "soft spot!" Some babies who have been in the birth canal a bit longer are born with some head "molding," when the skull is lumpy or elongated. Molding will always go away by itself. Babies that come into the world by means of a Caesarean birth usually have a nicely rounded head.

Your baby is so used to certain sounds that after the birth he can immediately recognize your voices or the barking of the dog. Your baby will also become quiet right away when he is placed on your abdomen after he is born. Your voice and warmth and the beating of your heart make him think of that safe warm uterus where he was all those months.

But it might very well be that your baby shows no sign of leaving his safe, trusted place yet. If the placenta is still working properly and there is sufficient progesterone being produced as a result of which the contractions - still - do not get into gear, your baby will happily stay where he is - which is absolutely fine and the best thing for him at this point.

So We Wait...

I did a blog the other day so I don't have a lot to write today. Although I did get a bit anxious yesturday after I had shown a few signs of early labour... but I am still here, baby in belly... so the wait continues. I am still loving being pregnant, continuing to be active... but I would be lying if I didn't say that I AM SO READY TO MEET OUR SON!

XOXO Tiffany