My Body This Coming Week

My Body This Coming Week
The end of this week marks the end of your second trimester.

Regular weight gain will continue until about the 36th week of pregnancy. Your breasts may be sore and uncomfortably heavy since they have increased in size.

You can be susceptible to urinary tract infection from this stage onwards. Drinking plenty of water can help.

Your cholesterol levels may be elevated, though this is usually normal in late pregnancy as cholesterol helps build up the pregnancy hormones that are being produced by the placenta. Of those hormones, progesterone is particularly important right now as it aids breast development and the muscles of the uterus.


My Baby This Coming Week
Your baby weighs more than 2 lbs (1000g), measures 9.6 inches from crown to rump (24cm) and its total length is about 15.3 inches (34cm). If your baby were born now, she would have about an 85% chance of surviving. Nonetheless, your baby still needs another 13 weeks of in utero development to be considered full term.

Your baby's eyes, no longer fused shut, are now open.

Your baby's skin still has a very wrinkled appearance, but it is protected and nourished by the covering of vernix, a waxy coating that keeps the skin supple.

Your baby looks almost like a full term baby, but is still much thinner and smaller than she will be at birth.

Crazy Hormones!!

Was watching a comedy program last night. Something had me laughing so hard I had to excuse myself to pee. Then while in the bathroom I started uncontrollably sobbing. And I wasn't sad. This is all so weird!!!!

Sleepy = Have to Pee!

Last night was horrible. I was so tired, but every time I got sleepy, I had to get up to pee. This happened every 10-15 minutes. Was terrible. I probably should have just slept on the toilet!! Started around 10 pm and lasted until easily 3am. Every 15 minutes. It's no wonder I'm cranky this morning.

Now if you'll excuse me...


I have to go Pee!!!!!

25w0d Today!

My Body This Coming Week

My Body This Coming Week
You feel definite movement now as your baby does gymnastic routines in your uterus. This may even cause you some pain under your ribs and in your lower abdomen as your baby now has some force. Lying on your side may help to alleviate this kind of pain.

You may have fluid retention, particularly in the facial area.

The top of your uterus is now between your bellybutton and your ribcage.

Your increasing size may cause increasing discomfort. You might be experiencing back pain, leg cramps, headaches and pressure around your pelvic area.

My Baby This Coming Week
Your baby weighs just under 2 pounds (850g) and could possibly survive if delivered now. Your baby measures approximately 9.2 inches (23cm) from crown to rump.

He is growing fast and gaining weight now. His skin is less transparent and is becoming opaque as fat builds up.

Your baby's heart is beating 120 to 160 beats per minute, as you have already heard at several doctor or midwife visits.

Until now, your baby's eyes have been sealed shut, but he reopens them this week. The eyes are almost fully formed and the retinas contain all the layers they will have when your baby is born. Your baby's eyes are blue right now, no matter the ethnic origin or eye-color of you and your partner since eyes do not acquire their final color until months after birth.

Your baby is lean right now, but is getting fatter all the time as fat is being deposited. Your baby's skin is getting thicker and paler and is becoming less red and wrinkled as more fat is deposited.

Your baby has eyebrows, eyelashes and fingernails, though all are short and need to grow more.

Economic Stress Update

Craig told his mother that we are planning to stay. Craig also had a great interview on Monday and we're waiting to hear if he'll get a second interview, but it seems promising. Feeling a bit of the pressure beginning to release which I'm extremely thankful for.

Now that April is here, it's a very busy month. Just trying to keep my head above the water for now.

Economic Stress Is Getting Me Down

My mother in law is great. She's kind, and compassionate. She's also very focused on getting my family to uproot and move in with her and my father in law this summer in Arizona.

My husband is still out of work, unemployed without unemployment insurance, however, I still have a great job that I love and they love me. I'm paid well enough (for here at least) and have full medical benefits. While they're (medical benefits) not the best, they're not the worst either. True, if DH doesn't get a job soon, my single income isn't going to be enough to keep us in our current apt. BUT DH is stalling on taking just anything because we'll lose a lot of our current healthcare aid which is helping us fund my c-sec this summer and hospital stay.

I love the community we live in. I love our apartment. And I'm getting ready to register my daughter for kindergarten.

I hate Arizona politics. I am not convinced we'll find immediate work there. I think giving up a known job with benefits for an unknown amount of time without any medical or financial assistance is crazy. If I quit my job in VT to move to AZ with my husband, I won't get unemployment either. It's a Vermont thing.

I can return to work as early as 2 months after having the baby 'cause that's when the daycare can take my son.

DH wants to move. MIL wants us to move. I want to stay. Mother in law is pressuring DH. And my stomach is in knots over all of this.

I want DH to pick up any job, even a $10/hr job would be fine, come May/June time frame. That would give us the cash needed to float us during my maternity. And he can still continue to look for work. I am fearful of moving without either of us having a job with benefits already lined up.

I don't want to move my family of 4 into his mother's home. And I don't want to move across country to do this either. I think it's crazy. And I hate that DH thinks it's a good idea.

I don't know how else to communicate to him that I don't want to do this and I think it's a bad idea. He just doesn't want to hear it.

So it's adding to my stress, which is aggravating my blood pressure, which is overall too high and not good for this pregnancy.

I know there is no solution to be found on-line, but needed to just get my thoughts out. I hope we can come to a resolution with this. I don't want to fight and I don't want to split up my family, and I really hope it won't come to that. :(