27 Weeks Today - Baking a 'lil pot roast

13 weeks 6 days to go!

Here's the update for our week from fitpregnancy.com:
Your baby weighs about two pounds and is about 12 to 15 inches long, about the size of a small pot roast. If your baby were born now, he would have an excellent chance (85 percent) of surviving. He still isn't fully formed and would probably not be able to breath by himself. He would need to stay in an incubator to keep his body temperature regulated, and he would have a weak liver and immune system. (Fact: Babies have more taste buds at birth than they will have later in life. Newborns can sniff out and tell the difference between their mother's milk and someone else's.)

Charlie is definitely an olympic soccer player these days. We started with adorable flutter kicks and now the big boy kicks have started. :-) For quite awhile as soon as Jose would try to feel his kicks Charlie would stop - this funny little game continued until late last week and now Jose catches his big kicks all the time.

For the most part I'm still feeling good though it's getting less roomy and uncomfortable as Charlie grows. Sleeping has been a struggle lately but when Jose is home I do considerably better. The old bulb tv in our room finally went out so I'm trying new coping strategies to go to sleep :-)

We're getting excited for the shower and invitations should be arriving in your mail boxes today. Be sure to RSVP to my sister by 6/7 so we can celebrate in style.

Tired / Our Town / Ode to Mothers

So many of you ask me every day - "how are you feeling?" It's sweet but it also gets old. In general I'm doing well - I'm sleeping well and no, my back doesn't hurt. I miss wine and caffeine like nobody's business and it's getting extremely difficult for me to get up to teach my morning classes but by the afternoon I am my "normal self".

Yesterday Jose and I toodled down to our farmer's market and we had so much fun. I love all the fresh products and the stroller parade! We live in such a family friendly community and I feel blessed to be surrounded by other families with young children. We also bought the best strawberry shortcake known to man...which I had another piece of for breakfast :-)

Ode to Mothers:
As mother's day approaches I would just like to say I have always respected and admired your job but it has not been until know - with my own impending motherhood on the horizon that I have had even a glimpse of what you face on a daily basis. This weekend we celebrate your courage, love, care and support that you give your family and those that surround you.

24 Weeks Pregnant

16 weeks, 1 day to go according to our updated due date and handy prego calendar on fitpregnancy.com (great site for other preggies). We had a pre-natal appointment with our OB yesterday and I know we are getting to a smooth place because Jose and I have have so few questions at this point. I'm sure the questions will ramp up as we get closer but we are all doing really well right now. Because I am young and healthy we don't get to have many ultrasounds which is where the real joy in going to the doc lies because we can see our boy dance and do flips. Now we can still hear the heartbeat on the doppler though and Charlie thought it would be fun to punch/kick the doppler yesterday which was quite amusing. Our doc got all wide eyed and said "Did you feel that"? Umm....Yeah - sorry about that!

We did also talk about delivery time lines as I have recently come into contact with many women who delivered really premature babies (all of their babies are healthy, thank goodness). I think Jose almost fell out of his chair when she said babies are viable after 32 weeks and no longer "premature" after 37 weeks. Yeah - 32 weeks - that's July....all the more real :-)

My cousins and sisters have asked for a preggie picture but I think they are so unattractive of me right now. I promise that if I get a cute one I'll post it.

More Space

It's becoming readily apparent that Charlie's webpage needs an extension for updates. I'm using blogger as an extension because it's so easy to update. I hope that this will serve as a good tool to keeping family & friends udpated.

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