• Total weight gain/loss: Total of 10, not bad at all for being halfway through and it's is all belly =)
• Maternity clothes: Nothing this week, weather hasn't been the greatest for it being mid-may so I've been wearing sweat suits---that still fit, yay! =)
• Stretch marks: None...lucky me? Definitely must have my mother's genes =)
• Sleep: sleep all night, but baby wakes me up very early with his kicks and somersaults
• Best moment this week: Mother's Day was definitely special. It was my 1st unofficial Mother's Day.
My husband surprised me with the most gorgeous bouquet of flowers, I wasn't expecting it at all. And a lot of sweet friends wished me a Happy mommy to be day. With a baby in my belly I guess I already count as a mommy!
• Movement: Lots! Baby is a hyper-kick-boxing machine! LOL
• Food cravings: Yuca and garlic mojo, yummm
• Gender: Baby Boy!!
• Labor signs: None...Thank the lord...not even close...17 weeks,122 days to go for that!
• Belly button in or out? Still in...don't know if it still looks like a belly but more like a button..lol
• What I miss: Nothing at all
• What I am looking forward to: Our Babymoon in less than 3 weeks!! =) and reaching viability week (7 more days!)
• Weekly Wisdom: Of course, you should embrace your budding belly --- and view those pounds as a wonderful sign of the miracle that's growing within. But that doesn't mean you should eat as much as you want of anything you want.
• Milestones: 23 Week Mark!! 17 weeks, 122 days, 2,928 hours to delivery!
• What is the baby up to? Baby is still the size of a papaya but stretching out and putting on the weight. And now that he's more than 11 inches long and weighs just over a pound (about as much as a large papaya), I am able to see him squirm and kick underneath my clothes.
Blood vessels in his lungs are developing to prepare for breathing, and the sounds that baby's increasingly keen ears pick up are preparing him for his entry into the outside world. Since baby is able to hear the outside noises now, the loud noises that become familiar now — such as Leo's bark or the roar of the vacuum cleaner — probably won't faze him when he hears them outside the womb.
Viability ~ the ability of a fetus to survive outside of the uterus without artificial support If my baby was born this week, there is a small chance he would survive outside the womb, however he knows the best for him is to stay put, explore mommy's belly, get cozy and grow, grow, grow until he reaches full term. Then he can come nad meet the world!
I, like many women start to wonder what might happen if my baby is born prematurely. A baby born between 23 and 24 weeks would have a 10 to 70 percent chance of survival. It truly depends on a number of factors that have to be taken into consideration. There are babies that are born at one pound that beat the odds and go on to live a fairly normal life, while others unfortunately die due to unexpected complications. The smallest babies may survive but grow up with some mental or motor disabilities as a result of their extreme prematurity.
Every day my baby stays in the womb it increases his survival rate by approximately 3 percent during weeks 23 and 26. Generally after 26 weeks the survival rate jumps to 80-90 percent. Baby Scerbs, you have at least 17 more weeks to go!
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