Your pregnancy: 27 weeks
See the big picture How your baby’s growing: This week, your baby weighs almost 2 pounds (like a head of cauliflower) and is about 14 1/2 inches long with her legs extended. She’s sleeping and waking at regular intervals, opening and closing her eyes, and perhaps even sucking her fingers. With more brain tissue developing, […]
Third Tri’s a Charm!
Marking the beginning of our 3rd trimester, we decided to do a really cool photo shoot. Here are some of our favorites!
Your pregnancy: 26 weeks
See the big picture How your baby’s growing: The network of nerves in your baby’s ears is better developed and more sensitive than before. He may now be able to hear both your voice and your partner’s as you chat with each other. He’s inhaling and exhaling small amounts of amniotic fluid, which is essential […]
Custom Registry Cards
Here are the cards that were included in the baby shower invitations Jen’s Mom and her “craft team” put together.
15 Weeks to Go Photo
Here’s Jen’s Belly shot for the 25 week mark! How cute is she? 🙂
Your pregnancy: 25 weeks
See the big picture How your baby’s growing Head to heels, your baby now measures about 13 1/2 inches. Her weight — a pound and a half — isn’t much more than an average rutabaga, but she’s beginning to exchange her long, lean look for some baby fat. As she does, her wrinkled skin will […]
Your pregnancy: 24 weeks
See the big picture How your baby’s growing: Your baby’s growing steadily, having gained about 4 ounces since last week. That puts him at just over a pound. Since he’s almost a foot long (picture an ear of corn), he cuts a pretty lean figure at this point, but his body is filling out proportionally […]
Kick!
I finally got to feel her kick! 🙂
Your pregnancy: 23 weeks
See the big picture How your baby’s growing: Your baby is more than 11 inches long and weighs just over a pound (about as much as a large mango). His skin is red and wrinkled. Blood vessels in his lungs are developing to prepare him for breathing. He can swallow, but he normally won’t pass […]
Demolition Man…
Here’s me this morning working on the baby’s room. It appears that I’ve had a bit too much coffee this morning. [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdGZB02Ywvo] Here’s me making a new window. [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSLqxxI-BTY]
Your pregnancy: 22 weeks
See the big picture How your baby’s growing: Your baby now looks like a miniature newborn, checking in at 10.9 inches (the length of a spaghetti squash) and almost 1 pound. Her skin will continue to appear wrinkled until she gains enough weight to fill it out, and the fine hair (lanugo) that covers her […]
Construction Zone
Yesterday officially kicked off baby room construction project. Here is the before of her room. We got our dumpster delivered today and we just finished pulling everything off the walls and emptying the closets.
Your pregnancy: 21 weeks
See the big picture How your baby’s growing: Your baby now weighs about three-quarters of a pound and is approximately 10 1/2 inches long — the length of a carrot. His eyebrows and eyelids are fully developed. And you can certainly feel him move. He’s oblivious to your schedule, though, so don’t be surprised if […]
Ultrasound 20 weeks
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Your pregnancy: 20 weeks
See the big picture How your baby’s growing: Your baby weighs about 10 1/2 ounces now. She’s also around 6 1/2 inches long from head to bottom, and about 10 inches from head to heel — the length of a banana. (For the first 20 weeks, we use measurements taken from the top of the […]