We are 36 weeks today and in our first week of our 9th month!!!!!! 4 more weeks to go!!!!! We now see our doctor on a weekly basis.
Cayden is still packing on the pounds – at the rate of about an ounce a day. He now weighs almost 6 pounds and is more than 18 1/2 inches long (about the size of a head of romaine lettuce or honey dew melon).
He is shedding most of the downy hair that covered his body, as well as the vernix caseosa – a waxy substance that protects the skin during its nine-month bath in amniotic fluid. Cayden swallows these substances, along with other secretions, and forms a tar-like black substance called meconium, which he passes in his first bowel movements.
At the end of this week, he will be considered "early term." (Full-term is 37 to 40 weeks. Babies born before 37 weeks are pre-term, 41 weeks is late term, and those born after 42 weeks are post-term.) Cayden is in a head-down position.
My cervix has softened but no dilation. My doctor also administered the group B strep test (GBS).
This week I have my big sis, Chamel here to help me prepare for Cayden. We plan to work on his room, install car seat, wash some of his clothes, and put our bags in the car.
Well, stay tuned for more updates.
As you round the corner to the last stretch of the race, take some time to reflect on everything you got to experience during your pregnancy good and bad. These are the memories you will have going into the next one, to share with other new mothers and baby Cayden when he gets older. In 4 weeks your life will change forever and you will experience the greatest love possible:) Good luck sis!!!
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