25 WEEKS DOWN, 15 TO GO!

Today, I'm 25 weeks 1 day pregnant. :-) That's 176 days in and 104 days to go! My 3rd trimester starts in just 13 days!!! And I feel great! I think I'm on the downhill side of my energy mountain, but still...feeling pretty good! Baby Ben is kicking like crazy...all the time. Sometimes I wonder if the kid ever sleeps! It's so fun now because I can see my belly move when he kicks. Just a few days ago, I actually saw my belly roll...Ben must have been flipping over or something! I've been trying to get Mark to see it, but so far we haven't been able to time it right. Hopefully soon though!

I have many pregnancy iPhone apps. One of the ones I have is called iPregnancy. According to iPregnancy:
"The baby's arms and legs are growing this week, almost to their birth length. It should be no surprise, then, that your baby boy will begin reaching for his feet around this time. The circulatory system is undergoing tremendous development. Capillaries are developing on the skin, giving it a pinkish color. In addition, blood vessels are developing in the lunge, preparing the baby to be able to breathe in a few months. The survival rate for babies born at 25 weeks is about 70%; of surviving infants, the rate of serious medical complications is about 55%. Remember that survival and complication rates are highly dependent on the baby's sex and race as well as the quality of the NICU."

According to www.babycenter.com:
"Head to heels, your baby now measures about 13 1/2 inches. His weight — a pound and a half — isn't much more than an average rutabaga, but he's beginning to exchange his long, lean look for some baby fat. As he does, his wrinkled skin will begin to smooth out and he'll start to look more and more like a newborn. He's also growing more hair — and if you could see it, you'd now be able to discern its color and texture."


(photo courtesy of www.babycenter.com)