This Is The Crap I'm Looking Up....Literally

We have been discussing diapers lately - cloth vs. disposable - and I was curious about how many diapers a baby goes through in a week.  Then I began to look at diaper results with breast milk vs. formula.  Gah!  So many factors!  But check out the lovely image I found (parts omitted to protect the innocent):

Sorry, I guess I should've warned you a bit with that one.  But really, it was pretty much there in the title.

Ew Spit It Out!

We are at 29 weeks now, which means only 10ish weeks left.  You heard me...10ish weeks left!  Let's stay calm though.  We can get through this together.  According to the website the peanut is around 2.5 pounds, which is the weight of a butternut squash.  On a side-note, I'm not a fan of the squashes.  The wife loves 'em, but I choke it down while she stares at me.  Anywho, we went for an ultrasound on Tuesday, and our baby actually weighs about 2lbs 13oz.  The wife is worried that the parasite is going to weigh in around the 10 pound mark, but the ultrasound guy thinks it will be smaller.  Thank goodness!  I don't think I could ever look at my wife the same way again if she pushed out a 10 pound object.  I just cannot see anyone bounce back from that fully.

I saw the baby yawn on the ultrasound, which melted me heart.  Not yet born, and it already has me wrapped around a finger.  I couldn't help thinking of how I yawn though.  Mouth stretched open, eyes disappearing, and...oh yeah...inhaling!  What the heck is the little one inhaling?  It's pretty much 29 week-old bath water at this point.  Try yawning without inhaling.  It's super creepy, and you can't do it.  So you know that the baby is inhaling the fluid.  What would be fantastic to see would be the baby blowing bubbles in the fluid.  I mean if you have all that time in there, you may as well have some fun.

28 Weeks

I have missed a lot the past week or more.  I had an emergency at work that took up way too much of my energy, and left me absolutely drained.  I have not only neglected this blog, but I have neglected the baby too.  While I was focused on myself, my baby went from being as long as a cucumber to weighing as much as a head of cauliflower and now to weighing as much as a much as a Chinese cabbage.  Honestly, I'm not even going to look up a Chinese cabbage because I feel that I would only be perpetuating the ridiculous comparisons that the website makes to vegetables and fruit.  Possible conspiracy to get me to buy these vegetables and fruit perhaps? I think so.

Some other highlights include some sporty eyelashes that the little parasite can blink with, the ability for the little one to suck on fingers (ew), and baby is getting some pudge now to fill out that wrinkly skin that we talked about previously.  We have the ultrasound next week so I guess we will see just how pudgy the little one is getting.

Baby is pretty darn active these days, and ranges from kicking the wife in the bladder to snuggling up against her ribs.  Awww doesn't that sound cute? No, no it does not.  The thought of it actually creeps me out.  Last night the wife told me to look at her stomach, and I swear to Jebus that the baby did a somersault right before my eyes.  It was like when you see something move right below the surface of the water, and it makes a small bubble of movement on top.  Creepy.  The wife usually says, "aren't you looking forward to going through this?"  To be quite honest I am a little curious about the whole thing, but I'm also very creeped out by the thought of having something alive inside of me.  To get the same feeling as me, think about having a tumor inside of you.  Not your everyday, run-of-the-mill type of tumor, but the one with teeth and hair.  I know that it's not fair to compare the two, but really that type of tumor grows too.  And the last time I checked, only living things grow.  Just saying.  Oh and if you google "tumor with teeth and hair" you just may throw up a little.  In case you had the urge.