Week 30
by Amalah
Your Baby: Weighs about three pounds and is 17 inches long. Since most full-term babies are between 20 and 22 inches long at 40 weeks’ gestation, your baby will pack on more pounds than inches in the 10 weeks or so. Is starting to get a little crowded in there, but still has room to [...]
The No-Bump Pregnancy Blues
by Amalah
Hi Amy, I read you all the time. I know you probably get eleventy trillion questions and I don’t know if this question is really something you can answer but I do need some girlfriend-esque advice and being that I am in a new city I don’t really have any actual peoples yet. My husband [...]
Week 29
by Amalah
Your Baby: Is big and strong enough to resemble a sinister alien thrashing around your abdomen, as my husband kindly pointed out recently, upon noticing a rouge pointy elbow jabbing up and down around my belly button. Is sucking up every drop of calcium you can provide as his or her bones continue to harden [...]
Week 28
by Amalah
Your Baby: Continues to get a longer and fatter by the day. Shocking, I know. His or her weight has actually doubled in the past month alone, which is why you’ve probably gotten comments about “popping” recently. Weight is around 2.5 pounds right now, which (if you’re like me, gazing in horror and your inside-out [...]
Week 27
by Amalah
Your Baby: Hey! Remember when I told you your baby was as big as a gummy bear? Oh, about 19 or 20 weeks ago? Now imagine a two-pound, 15-inch-long gummy bear. Yep. Eyelids (which have been fused since 11 or 12 weeks) can now open and close. You: Are officially in the third trimester! Feel [...]
The Perfect Postpartum Wardobe
by Amalah
Hey Amalah/Amy; I’m a new reader, but enjoying your sass/honesty/poop jokes tremendously. Here’s my question: I’m 32 wks pregnant with my first baby (stretch marks already, what’s up with that? but not my question). But I am looking for what cute but comfy clothes to wear in the hospital and the first few days at [...]
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