32 Weeks!

It is hard to believe that another week of this pregnancy has flown by! We have not made anymore progress towards preparing for her arrival this week. Mommy has washed all of the clothes and has organized them by size. All of the dresser drawers are full now and there is a stack of pretty little dresses waiting to be hung in the closet. The light for Kailyn's room came in yesterday, so Daddy got that put up and we love it!

Here is what Miss Kailyn is up to this week:

By now, she weighs about 3.75 pounds and is about 16.7 inches long, taking up a lot of space in Mommy's tummy. Mommy should be gaining about a pound a week and roughly half of that goes right to the baby. In fact, she'll gain a third to half of her birth weight during the next 7 weeks as she fattens up for survival outside the womb. She now has toenails, fingernails, and real hair (or at least respectable peach fuzz). Her skin is becoming soft and smooth as she plumps up in preparation for birth.

Now, all the five senses of this little one are working. She can open her eyes and can focus her gaze on a fixed point. Kailyn has now developed sensitivity to the temperature, which means if you keep a hot pad on the belly, immediately you will get a swift kick. She can move her head to the side, but as she becomes larger, the movements will slowly decrease. And, according to research, she even has REM (dream sleep) which starts from the 8th month onwards.

Daddy made fun of this 32 week fact: "It is perfectly natural to feel increasingly tired, to have trouble breathing and also to not be able to move as fast as you used to till last week. You must keep in mind that the due day is close and the best idea you can have is to rest as much as you can." Mommy has been tired all the time for a while now, no new news to us :)