Archive for June, 2008

great baby website
June 28, 2008So, I’ve discovered a great baby website. Not because it has great tips or info or anything important like that, but because it has this photo gallery of women who are at the same point in their pregnancy as me. The comforting thing about this is that even though there is always someone skinnier, there is also always someone who is way (I mean waaayyy) bigger than me. I don’t know why this site comforts me so much, but I find myself scrolling through the pics looking for someone who makes me feel like I’m not a whale. It’s probably not the point of the gallery, but what can I say…it makes me happy.
I’ve included a few sample pics (i’ve removed their heads for anonymity). These women are both 17 weeks pregnant. I’ll add one of me soon…I can’t figure out how to get the darn pictures off of the camera.

17 week update
June 24, 2008
just the beginning…
June 21, 2008
Strollers and Car Seats
June 18, 2008Yesterday was a funny day as Paige and I made a quick trip to the store to get pregnancy necessities – candy and corndogs (this one is recent and I’m not quite sure where it came from). Anyways, during this trip we decided to drop by the baby section of wal-mart and look at strollers and car seats. We have determined that we REALLY want the kind that you can just pop into the stroller. After reading articles and thousands of baby magazines it was suggested that we pull the stroller down and actually see how it feels (right height, good wheels, light weight). After pulling the stroller down the fun began as Paige and I looked like cave men trying to figure out a stove or a car for the first time. We pushed on buttons trying to figure out what they did, tried to collapse the stroller, and then spent almost 5-10 minutes trying to figure out how to unlock the stroller after we collapsed it. Needless to say, Paige and I left the store very encouraged that we still have about 5 months to still figure all this stuff out.

baby update – 116 days pregnant
June 17, 2008Your baby is adding to its list of reflex behaviors: blinking helps keep foreign objects out of their eyes and keeps their eyes moist, sucking and swallowing provide for the ingestion of nutrients. Right now, your baby is practicing all three of these reflex behaviors. It is also working on incorporating some additional reflexes, so that by the time it is born, the average full-term baby will display more than seventy different reflex behaviors.

16 weeks!
June 16, 2008
baby update – 112 days pregnant
June 13, 2008Your baby measures 4 3/4 inches long (120 mm) crown to rump and weighs 3 3/4 ounces (104.5 g), having more than doubled its dimensions in a mere two weeks.

baby update – 111 days pregnant
June 12, 2008- Your baby’s head now appears upright—the chin no longer seems to rest on the chest.
- You’ll probably feel most comfortable now that you’re in your second trimester. With any luck, morning sickness (if you had it) may be past and your energy level is likely to be up.

baby update – 105 days pregnant
June 6, 2008At this point in development, your baby has a considerable range of foot and leg movements: It can kick, turn its feet outward and inward, curl its toes, and fan its toes.










