Baby's now the size of a watermelon!The last bits of vernix caseosa (the white goo keeping baby's skin moist) and lanugo (downy hair) are slowly shedding into your amniotic fluid. Baby's head is about the same circumference as her abdomen, and her head could be covered in an inch or so of hair.
Your baby has really plumped up. She weighs about 6.8 pounds and she's over 19 1/2 inches long (like a leek). She has a firm grasp, which you'll soon be able to test when you hold her hand for the first time! Her organs have matured and are ready for life outside the womb.Wondering what color your baby's eyes will be? You may not be able to tell right away. If she's born with brown eyes, they'll likely stay brown. If she's born with steel gray or dark blue eyes, they may stay gray or blue or turn green, hazel, or brown by the time she's 9 months old. That's because a child's irises (the colored part of the eye) may gain more pigment in the months after she's born, but they usually won't get "lighter" or more blue. (Green, hazel, and brown eyes have more pigment than gray or blue eyes.)
I can't believe I'm down to the last 2 weeks! I know that techinically I could go another 4 but I choose to not think that way :) But still no signs of labor. I thought this morning at about 5:00 AM that maybe I was feeling something but changed positions and it went away. It's really hitting home now for David and I that here in a very short period of time we're going to have a baby. We won't be a couple anymore, we'll be a family. We'll have our own little family. Wow.
I hope she's small enough to wear newborn size because I cannot wait to put her in her little newborn size dresses for church!
I'll post a picture later of me at 38 weeks. It'll look like all the other weeks. I don't think I've gotten much bigger. David says I have.
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