We are now into the waiting game part of the pregnancy (and very frustrating it is). Junior could be born in the next 3 mins, the next 3 hours, 3 days, 3 weeks (to the due date) or as late as 5 weeks from now! So the mobile phone now becomes a permanent attachment to my body (very annoying for the gym and karate!).
Apparently at this stage the babies development is around 92% complete and Junior will weigh close to 6.5 pounds / 2.8 kilograms and may be about 20 inches / 50 centimetres long from head to toe. Another midwife appointment today confirmed a healthy size, healthy heart beat, healthy blood pressure and that the baby is in a head down position (but not engaged yet).
Most of the Junior's downy coat of lanugo that has been covering him/her since 26 weeks would have disappeared, and so has most of the vernix caseosa, this is the whitish substance that also covers the baby. Junior will swallow the lanugo and exterior coating, along with other secretions, and store them in her bowels (a bit like Junior's Dad when he stores up a good curry!). These will become Junior's first bowel movement, a blackish waste called meconium (and I'll make sure I get a picture of it for you all to see!!!).
Of course the other big countdown is T Minus 2.5 days - this is how many working days Tina has left before giving up for 9 months (and yes she does keep rubbing it in!). From what I understand of newborn babies, something tells me that the hard work hasn't even begun yet though.......
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