Sunday, August 30, 2009

Week 24

Hi everyone,
not too too much to report. We have been feeling (and seeing) the baby move now more than ever before. His kicks and punches get quite strong in the evening and especially at bed time it seems. Elody and I officially setup our baby registry at Babies R Us too, it's amazing just how much stuff they recommend you buy. After researching infant car seats online we decided it best to actually see and feel our top choices in person, so we hit up Babies R Us last night. It definitely helped to get a first hand look at some of this baby gear. The best part was that we could add items to our online baby registry in-store. So needless to say, we ended up running around with "gun" in hand zapping everything in sight for the next hour or so. :) Baby's closet is ever growing with the addition of new oh-so-cute clothes every week. And baby's nursery should be getting painted sometime in the next week too!

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How your baby's growing:

Your baby's growing steadily, having gained about 4 ounces since last week. That puts him at just over a pound. Since he's almost a foot long (picture an ear of corn), he cuts a pretty lean figure at this point, but his body is filling out proportionally and he'll soon start to plump up. His brain is also growing quickly now, and his taste buds are continuing to develop. His lungs are developing "branches" of the respiratory "tree" as well as cells that produce surfactant, a substance that will help his air sacs inflate once he hits the outside world. His skin is still thin and translucent, but that will start to change soon.
24 week baby
24 week belly