Welcome to Week #34!

I hope the baby can at least make it until past the 36th week. Here is what is happening as we start the 34th week:

In these last few weeks before delivery, billions of your baby's brain cells are helping her to learn about her environment. These cells help her to listen, feel, and even see. In fact, this is another important week for visual development. By now, your baby may now be able to experience her surroundings visually, since the pupils of her eye can now detect some light. Her pupils are constricting and dilating to allow her baby to see dim shapes. Your baby now weighs about 4.4 pounds! (Babies gain a good deal of their weight in the final few weeks before birth.) She is about 16.4 inches long from head to toe. Other developments this week include the baby's head size increasing about 3/8 of an inch in circumference. Baby is now sleeping much of the time. The lungs are continuing to mature and fat will continue to be added on to Baby's body for protection and warmth.

The part about the baby sleeping much of the time.... uh, yeah.... I don't think that's too accurate. It feels like s/he's training for the olymics in there or something. The movement itself is different though, because it's more twisting and rolling and pushing, rather than kicking and punching. Hopefully, we'll both get some sleep soon.