The Kidney Bean: Reality

Thursday, March 23, 2006

Reality

I'm going to have a baby in less than four months. Me, of all people. A baby. And by "have a baby," I don't mean deliver one. I mean I'm going to have one. A whole baby. To take care of. It won't survive without me to take care of it. The reality of the responsibility is overwhelming.

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At 2:47 PM, Anonymous said...: Just wait till that first night at home with just you Bobby and the baby. Mike and I were ready to hire the Regina, the nurse from the NICU that took care of Tommy, to come and live with us. but don't worry you figure it out. Although I am still trying to get my head around the fact that he is mine, forever.

Danielle
At 2:49 PM, Jessica said...: Regina must have been wonderful.
At 9:02 PM, Anonymous said...: After delivery it didn't seem real and it took a few times of holding Chad, smelling the newborn baby smell(it's not the artificial Baby Magic smell either), That I realized that,yes, I was a Mom to this little one. That protective mother hen syndrome took over. That is why Jon quit smoking.
Aunt Chris
At 8:50 PM, Sherri Sanders said...: I always felt awe when I stared at both of my sons as new borns. A clean slate, I can make their lives so good, I can show them so much, I can help them to become wonderful people.

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Milestones

Two weeks: conception occurred (during the 40 weeks of her pregnancy, a mommy is actually pregnant for only 38 weeks)

Three weeks: our kidney bean (K.B.) was a little ball of cells called a blastocyst

Four weeks: K.B. became an embryo and started making me feel queasy

Five weeks: K.B.'s heart started beating

Six weeks: K.B. started moving

Seven weeks: K.B. started to develop teeth

Eight weeks: K.B. grew to the size of a kidney bean :)

Nine weeks: K.B.'s tail disappeared

Ten weeks: K.B. became a fetus

Eleven weeks: K.B.'s webbed hands and feet separated to form fingers and toes

Twelve weeks: K.B.'s little kidneys started working

Thirteen weeks: K.B.'s unique fingerprints were in place

Fourteen weeks: K.B. and Mommy started the second trimester!

Fifteen weeks: K.B. was able to sense light through his/her fused eyelids and could move away if I shined a flashlight at my stomach

Sixteen weeks: K.B. was about 4 1/2 inches head to bottom and pumped 25 quarts of blood each day

Seventeen weeks: K.B.'s hearing began to develop

Eighteen weeks: K.B. was roughly 5 1/2 inches head to bottom and weighed seven ounces

Nineteen weeks: K.B. sprouted hair on his/her scalp

Twenty weeks: K.B. was 6 1/2 inches from head to bottom and ten inches from head to heel

Twenty-one weeks: K.B.'s eyelids and eyebrows were fully developed

Twenty-two weeks: K.B. developed teeth buds

Twenty-three weeks: K.B. was eleven inches long and weighed more than a pound

Twenty-four weeks: K.B.'s taste buds were developing

Twenty-five weeks: K.B. was about thirteen-and-a-half inches and weighed a pound and a half

Twenty-six weeks: K.B. could hear better all the time as the nerve pathways in its ears continued to develop

Twenty-seven weeks: K.B.'s brain tissues developed further

Twenty-eight weeks: K.B. had eyelashes

Twenty-nine weeks: K.B. weighed 2 1/2 pounds and was 15 inches long

Thirty weeks: K.B. weighed almost three pounds and had 20/400 vision

Thirty-one weeks: K.B. weighed over three pounds and was 16 inches long

Thirty-two weeks: K.B. grew to nearly four pounds and was almost 17 inches long

Thirty-three weeks: K.B.'s bones began to harden

Thirty-four weeks: K.B.'s central nervous system was still maturing, but its lungs were fairly well developed

Thirty-five weeks: K.B.'s kidneys were fully developed and its liver could process some waste products

Thirty-six weeks: K.B. is gaining about an ounce a day now

The Kidney Bean

Thursday, March 23, 2006

Reality

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