Friday, August 5, 2016

week 25 for baby (Alivia Constance Rodriguez-Miranda)

  Your baby is beginning to pack on some baby fat. As he does, wrinkled skin will start to smooth out and he'll look more and more like a newborn. He's also growing more hair – you'd be able to see its color and texture if you could look into your womb. What's there may not be permanent: Some babies lose most of their hair in the first six months, and what grows back can be a different color or texture. 
  Your baby's wrinkled skin is starting to fill out with baby fat, making her look more like a newborn. Her hair is beginning to come in, and it has color and texture.
  Your baby is now the same weight as an average rutabaga.
  Head to heels, your baby now measures about 13 1/2 inches. Her weight – 1 1/2 pounds – isn't much more than an average rutabaga, but she's beginning to exchange her long, lean look for some baby fat. As she does, her wrinkled skin will begin to smooth out and she'll start to look more and more like a newborn. She's also growing more hair – and if you could see it, you'd be able to discern its color and texture.
  Your baby's not the only one with more hair – your locks may look fuller and more lustrous than ever. It's not that you're growing more hair, but thanks to hormonal changes, the hair that you'd normally shed is sticking around longer than usual. Enjoy the fullness while you can – the extra hair will fall out after you give birth.
  You may also notice that you can't move around as gracefully as before. Unless your healthcare provider has advised you otherwise, it's fine to continue to exercise, but follow a few safety rules: Don't work out when you're feeling overly tired and stop if you feel any pain, dizziness, or shortness of breath. Don't lie flat on your back, and avoid contact sports as well as any exercise where you're apt to lose your balance. Be sure to drink plenty of water, and make time for both warm-up and cool-down periods.
  When you have your glucose-screening test at 24 to 28 weeks, a second tube of blood may be taken at the same time to check for anemia. If blood tests show that you have iron-deficiency anemia (the most common type of anemia), your healthcare provider will probably recommend that you take an iron supplement.
  Have you started thinking about baby names yet? Choosing a name is an important decision, but it should be a fun one, too. You may want to consider family history (Great Grandpa Zeb), favorite locations (Venice, where you honeymooned), or cherished literary or film characters (Greta, Meg, or Atticus, for example). Check out our baby-name inspiration lists to help you brainstorm.

1 comment:

  1. You three sure did change your hair color. You had the blackest hair I've ever seen and you had a full head of it too. Then it changed to Blonde, and now its the color it is now--a more Dirty Blonde. Having Mexican in Alivia's blood, I'm sure she will have black hair when she's born like her mama did.

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