The Kidney Bean: Thirty-two week visit

Friday, May 05, 2006

Thirty-two week visit

Good news. As you probably know, I've been measuring large, so I was scheduled for an ultrasound today to see what's up. The ultrasound is much more exact than the crude uterine measurements they've been doing thus far.

According to the ultrasound, I'm right on track. Kidney Bean is right there in the 50th percentile for weight. No due-date revisions for me! K.B. weighs in at a healthy 4 lbs., 5.5 oz.

In other good news, K.B. is now presenting normally, which means s/he's transitioned to the head-down position and is no longer breech. I reported at twenty-eight weeks that K.B. was still breech, which was no cause for concern. I've since found out that 25% of babies are still breech at twenty-eight weeks, which is less than I thought. Oh, well. Doesn't matter now, because K.B. is no longer breech.

Remaining news from the visit: I've gained another five pounds, for a total of twenty-five pounds so far. Also, today was the first time ever that the nurse didn't say "Excellent" after taking my blood pressure. Yes, my pressure is elevated. It's not high, but it is considered high for me. Previously, my dialstolic pressure (the bottom number) has been in the sixties. Suddenly, it's jumped to 82. I'm scheduled to go back in a week (instead of the usual two weeks) to have it checked again.

1 Comments:

At 8:25 PM, Valerie said...: Yay for not being breech anymore!!!! Hope the BP comes back down. :)

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