Your baby is still packing on the pounds — at the rate of about an
ounce a day. She now weighs almost 6 pounds (like a crenshaw melon)
and is more than 18 1/2 inches long. She's shedding most of the downy
covering of hair that covered her body as well as the vernix caseosa,
the waxy substance that covered and protected her skin during her
nine-month amniotic bath. Your baby swallows both of these substances,
along with other secretions, resulting in a blackish mixture, called
meconium, will form the contents of her first bowel movement.
At the end of this week, your baby will be considered full-term.
(Full-term is 37 to 42 weeks; babies born before 37 weeks are pre-term
and those born after 42 are post-term.) Most likely she's in a
head-down position. But if she isn't, your practitioner may suggest
scheduling an "external cephalic version," which is a fancy way of
saying she'll try to coax your baby into a head-down position by
manipulating her from the outside of your belly.
I have FOUR weeks left! that is, two - six weeks. whoa.
also, we're going to starkville this weekend! but still coming back in
time to see my dear friends who are coming to jackson!
i need to get to work...
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