Full Term!

 



At least officially, our little guy is considered full term this week. This means that if he came out now, everything in his tiny body would likely be developed enough to handle life in this crazy world, with a little TLC from us, of course. He might be about 19" long and weigh around 6 lb, 5 oz, adding an ounce a day until he comes out. That makes him about the size of a bunch of swiss chard!

 

When we learned about him last week, we were told that he's not doing one important step in these final weeks, which is getting into position for his big debut. He has flipped between being breech and having his head down (hmm, maybe a future acrobat?). As he nears his due date in a couple of weeks, we're hoping he'll just be a good boy and get in position. If he won't, it will be a long and potentially surgical process for A to get him out, and we want this to be as easy as possible for her. So, turn baby turn is what I find myself humming sometimes to the tune of Disco Inferno by the Trammps. (Just for fun...click here).

 

At this point, it's hard for us to not know much about how he's doing in there. We are grateful that she goes to her doctors appointments and that we have some encouraging information about how they're monitoring her development into the home stretch. We're looking forward to learning a lot more on Friday when we get to meet her in person.

 

I guess it's the beginning of an era when we'll beg him more often than not to "JUST SIT STILL!"