Her hospital bag is packed and ready for the hospital, mine is pseudo-packed...everything is on the ground around the bag, just not folded and put into the bag. I don't know what is holding me back from finishing packing, but oh well. At least if we have to rush to the hospital, it is all there for Brian to grab at a later date, not like he has to find things for me, like "underwear"...If I had to ask him over the phone, he'd probably bring something cute and not hospital/post baby appropriate, ha!
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.)
Your baby's intestines have accumulated a considerable amount of meconium (the code name for black, tar-like baby poop), which is usually eliminated shortly after birth and gives you your first experience with the 100-wipe diaper change. Here's what else is up: Your baby might just scratch herself in the womb as the fingernails have grown over the fingertips now. Resist painting them hot pink when she arrives.Baby's lungs continue to mature and her brain and nerve function are working better every day. The latter two will continue to mature until Junior is a teenager, at which point she'll know it all (or at least she'll think she does).Your baby weighs about 6½ pounds and is around 19 or 20 inches long—as long as a duffel bag (in case you needed an excuse to go shopping for a new bag for your labor gear).
How your life's changing:
For many women, the next couple of weeks are a waiting game (um, this whole damned pregnancy has been a waiting game!!!). Use this time to prepare your baby's nursery or to take care of necessary tasks you may not get around to for a while after your baby's born. Take naps (yes, please, I am as tired as I was during the first trimester! I have no problem sleeping during the day, during the night, however, I can't seem to get comfy or sleep long enough to make it count), catch up on your reading (check! I love reading, everything from baby books to fiction, I will take whatever I can find), and spend uninterrupted time with your partner while you can (Brian and I are fortunate enough that we could lock ourselves in our house for the next two weeks and still look forward to spending the next week alone with just each other...it might also help that we have a kick ass TV and home and puppy...not sure...).
Seeing that you've been wearing the same pair of maternity jeans every day for the last month (more like rotating between the same 4-5 dresses, but yes, my wardrobe is pretty scarce), you probably haven't had a ton of laundry to do. That's all going to change in the next few weeks. Who knew that such a tiny person could create such mountains of laundry in a mere 48 hours? There will be so much barf and poop to get out of baby's clothes, you'll think you've given birth to the Exorcist baby.
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