25 weeks

So I'm 25 weeks and I'm feeling it! Its getting harder to put my socks and gym shoes on. Thankfully my pregnancy Yoga and Pilates DVDs are helping with my back so thats nice.

Here are updated photos from today: 25 Weeks

I had a Drs appointment today. Dr. Graham says everything is going well and I look good. In two weeks I'll be going for my gestational diabetes test. I'm not worried about it at all except to say there will be a 3 hour period where I can't eat. That might be difficult... hmmmmm

Tim and I finished the nursery. Well, for the most part. The painting is totally done and so is the crib - all the hard stuff. Here are more photos:

Here is how our little princess is developing: At nine inches and more than a pound and a half in weight, your baby is taller than two juice boxes stacked one on top of the other, and almost as heavy as four of those little boxes.
Your baby's skin is turning pinker. No, not because he or she's getting overheated (in fact, the amniotic fluid is perfectly climate controlled, keeping your baby at an always comfortable temperature), but because small blood vessels, called capillaries, are forming under the skin and filling with blood. Later this week, blood vessels will also develop in your baby's lungs, bringing them one step closer to full maturity — and one step closer to taking that first breath of fresh air. But at 25 weeks pregnant, those lungs are still very much works in progress. Though they are already beginning to develop surfactant, a substance that will help the lungs expand after the baby is born, the lungs are still too undeveloped to sufficiently send oxygen to the bloodstream and release carbon dioxide when she exhales.

The lungs aren't the only system that's gearing up for air intake. Your baby's nostrils, which have been plugged up until now, are starting to open this week. This actually allows your little one to begin taking practice breaths. (Of course since there's no air in there, your baby is really only "breathing" amniotic fluid, but it's the practice that counts, right?)

Kydriana has been kicking me like crazy the last two days. Its pretty cool and still catches me off guard. I'm so looking forward to the foot in the ribs ;)