28 Weeks

What’s Will up to? According to babyzone, your baby has tiny eyelashes, fine eyebrows, and ever-lengthening fingernails, but his internal organs are doing the most work this week. His brain is growing rapidly, adding millions of brain cells, and his head is also getting bigger to accommodate all that brilliance. But the biggest news this week is about the baby's defenses: with help from the placenta, Baby is developing an immune system, which gets stronger by the day. The placenta actually begins taking up some of the antibodies from your blood stream and transferring them to the baby in order to prepare for the onslaught of germ exposure once the baby comes out into the world. As the baby builds up his defenses, he is also putting on weight, so much so that you can no longer see the web of blood vessels beneath his skin.

Will continues to be as active as ever! I love all the kicks no matter the time of day. The next time I get to see him on the big screen is 4/23 for another growth update where they look to make sure all his organs are developing normally and they provide an estimated weight.

Bed Rest/Hospital Stay: I have been on bed rest for a total of 12 weeks, 4 weeks at North Memorial. I have more visitors here at the hospital than I did at home because of the location which is good since I don’t get to see Chris every day. Chris tries to come 3-4 times a week but with Spring here, he has a lot of chores to do since he’s doing both of ours. I am looking forward to his first sleep over tonight, although, I am fairly sure he’s isn’t because these pull out beds are not as comfy as our bed at home but he can make do.

Highlights: Making it to 28 weeks! Craig from the NICU came to  congratulate me and basically said, Will just needs to put on weight now so if he does come early, there is not a lot to worry about medically for him. One of my nurses also took some maternity pictures this week, I can’t wait to see them when she is back from vacation.

All about me: I am up a total of 20 pounds and 14“ on my tummy!  Last Friday, I had my 1 hour Gestational Diabetes (GD) test and I failed. So this week, I started eating as if I already had GD and tested again this morning and failed again. So I got to learn how to prick my finger and test myself but while I am in the hospital, the nurses will need to test me. Not looking forward to even more interruptions during the day. I am going to create a separate post with my routine – it’s crazy!