This week: Wolverine Baby is 14.8 inches long and weighs 2 1/4 pounds. That's about the weight of a Chinese cabbage or an eggplant.
Development: This week, Wolverina is now blinking her eyes (complete with eye lashes) and can possibly sense light coming in through the womb. I wonder if she'll enjoy the sun when we go scalloping this weekend... Also, pretty much everything else I've read about this week of development says that basically, she's just putting on weight and growing more brain cells.
Are you craving anything? Not at the moment.
Is there any food that turns you off? I want spicy food - it sounds so good, but the thought of the heartburn I'll get from it turns me off for sure. Pretty much everything except water and chocolate milk gives me heartburn these days.
How do you feel? Better now than I did in the middle of the night last night. Acid reflux woke me up. I have never had acid reflux before, and I now have a tremendous amount of sympathy for people who deal with that on a daily basis. It's terrible! You can feel the burning liquid rising in your chest. Gross!!
How is your sleep? Except for the interruptions, it's pretty good.
Most surprising thing you've noticed or experienced: I think this is a tie between three things... 1) When I lay on my side, I frequently feel Wolverina on both sides of my abdomen. It feels like she's standing on the side I'm on and reaching her hands (or maybe it's her head??) up to touch the top side. 2) Nesting is real. I have had several moments in the past week where I've felt this frantic urge to get the house completely clean and the nursery put together. (This is why we spent several hours yesterday cleaning out the nursery closets and organizing everything in that room.) 3) Monday night, I got out of bed to use the restroom, and when I tried to stand up, I couldn't. I was having a Braxton Hicks contraction that was strong enough to keep me from being able to completely straighten up. The sensation wasn't pleasant, but it wasn't particularly painful. It was kind of like a mild cramp. But it was definitely a surprise.
Something you're surprised you haven't noticed or experienced: Nope.
Favorite/most comfortable article of clothing: A pair of sleep shorts that are loose enough to wear comfortably all the time. Too bad they're not exactly appropriate outside the house.
How is Ray doing? He's amazing. He has been working diligently on sanding the dresser we're going to use to house most of Wolverina's stuff, and he was super patient while humoring me yesterday as I insisted that we needed to try to get the nursery in order. What I want for the nursery (nothing in there except her stuff and all of it organized completely) simply isn't possible considering the size of our house. Ray gently reminded me of this fact several times and helped me work out a solution that left me feeling pretty happy with the arrangement of things in there and in our other closets. He is a good, good man.
You look adorable!!!
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