My doctor's appointment today went well. She did the routine check for Strep B today, and I am now having to see her every week until Cohen's birthday! His heart rate was a good 142 and Dr. Kennebeck was happy to hear he's been a squirmy little boy in there wiggling around all day (and night!). She told me that if I were to go into labor today (though unexpected) she wouldn't stop it. So, it's official. We're one week away from being considered full term and our Cohen John could be here any day!
Please keep us in your prayers as this is both a joyous week and a week of grief as Thursday will be one year since we lost our first child. It's a very sad feeling knowing what we missed with our first baby now that we've experienced so much with Cohen. We'll definitely need all the prayer we can get as we try to make it through the 17th together.
Happy 36th week, our baby boy. Mommy and Daddy absolutely cannot wait to meet you!
How your baby's growing:
Your baby is still packing on the pounds — at the rate of about an ounce a day. He now weighs almost 6 pounds (like a crenshaw melon) and is more than 18 1/2 inches long. He's shedding most of the downy covering of hair that covered his body as well as the vernix caseosa, the waxy substance that covered and protected his skin during his nine-month amniotic bath. Your baby swallows both of these substances, along with other secretions, resulting in a blackish mixture, called meconium, will form the contents of his first bowel movement.
At the end of this week, your baby will be considered full-term. (Full-term is 37 to 42 weeks; babies born before 37 weeks are pre-term and those born after 42 are post-term.) Most likely he's in a head-down position. But if he isn't, your practitioner may suggest scheduling an "external cephalic version," which is a fancy way of saying she'll try to coax your baby into a head-down position by manipulating him from the outside of your belly.
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