This whole world has hit hyper-drive for me the past couple of weeks. This is my week lately:
Monday - Work all day, class until 8:00
Tuesday - Work all day, BLN ride until 8:30
Wednesday - Work all day, class until 8:00
Thursday - Work all day, NEBC softball until 10:00
Friday - Work all day
Saturday - Ride early, junk at the house all day
Sunday - Church all day
Jennifer has mentioned to me that most of these things I've volunteered for and if I've got too much going on, I should drop something. That may happen before too long, but I'm not ready to drop something yet. The way I'm looking at it, this is good practice for having a young baby. If I'm sleep deprived going into it, then it won't be a shock to my system when the reason I'm tired isn't the softball double-header, but the screaming child in the other room.
Now, I know that this blog is to talk about my upcoming baby and the whole soon-to-be-parent situation, but I'm exhausted right now. I'm done griping, I'll get back to the task.
These past two weeks have been kind of "same day, different shirt". Jenn has an appetite again and she's happy about that. Eating has become less of an event that happens a couple of times and more of a state of mind that she constantly lives in. In the evenings, it is a race to eat and go to sleep before she becomes hungry again. I would see that as a race that you couldn't help but win. If you get to sleep, then you are asleep and everyone loves to be asleep. If you don't get to sleep, then you get to eat again, which should be an enjoyable experience. Something that Jenn is dealing with (that I never thought would happen to her) is that she is eating so often that she is sick of eating. Eating has always been one of Jenn's favorite things to do, so to be in this place is like A-Rod being absolutely sick of playing baseball. Ridiculous...
Baby is growing like a mad dog. For week 12, the most dramatic development is reflexes. Your baby's fingers will soon begin to open and close, his toes will curl, his eye muscles will clench, and his mouth will make sucking movements. In fact, if you prod your abdomen, your baby will squirm in response, although you won't be able to feel it. His intestines, which have grown so fast that they protrude into the umbilical cord, will start to move into his abdominal cavity about now, and his kidneys will begin excreting urine into his bladder. For week 13, fingerprints have formed on your baby's tiny fingertips, her veins and organs are clearly visible through her still-thin skin, and her body is starting to catch up with her head — which makes up just a third of her body size now. If you're having a girl, she now has more than 2 million eggs in her ovaries. Your baby is almost 3 inches long (the size of a medium shrimp) and weighs nearly an ounce.
That's all for now, I'm going to bed.
Keep growing, Baby...
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