The 37th week

As of this week I am considered full-term. But I will wait in here for a while, to grow just a little more and to give my parents time to finish arranging our future home. I have already descended a little and my mommy feels like I'm going to fall out, when she walks. Don't worry, I won't. She keeps forgetting things, so I want to tell her, that this is perfectly normal - MRI scans of pregnant women even showed that brain size actually shrinks in the third trimester. They don't know why - maybe it has something to do with sleep deprivation an overall feeling of tiredness - but it'll get back to normal after birth...(good thing, otherwise what would I say to my grandma - she's been through this three times!).
I still have trouble with hiccups as I am practicing inhaling and exhaling. I want to have this breathing thing down, before I'll need it. I am very good at grasping already (mom, dad - get your fingers ready!). I can also suck my thumb, turn my head, swallow and blink.

I have hiccups...

...all the time... I guess I need to work on drinking this fluid. How do you people do it?

The 35th week

I am rapidly gaining weight and accumulating fat and I am supposed to! Aren't I a lucky woman? Now my arms and legs are getting plumper and when people will see me, they will adore cute dimples on my knees and elbows. That's what you call babyfat!


My temporary home looks like this for now from outside. You can see that i'm taking a lot of space;)

It's been getting lighter in here, since my mum's belly is stretching. I like it, I have more to see. I know my mum's internal organs by heart now...

My parents started going to school for future parents. Of course, I get to listen in on it. The detailed descriptions of labour and pain kind of freaked my mother out, but I think if she does her job well, I don't have much to worry about. I just go with the pushing and squeezing and other people will take care of me.
After each lesson there is an organised tour of maternity ward for a smaller group of participants - but they wouldn't let us see it today, because of encreased security. Apparently some satanists threatened to take a child born on 06.06.06 for sacrifices...I'm glad I'm not due yet...It's probably a prank, but the hospital has to take it seriously.

A month and a half to go...

I've been neglecting this blog lately. I admit. It was on purpose. I feel obligated now to write the "read-by-relatives-Slovene" one every week and I hate repeating myself. Also, nothing much has been happening. I am growing and fattening now, everything that should be seems to be developed already. Accumulating fat under my skin makes me look pink, not so red anymore. Also, I don't have as much space in here, so I can't roll around. I still try to move as much as I can and I kick around...I am already in a head-down position. They can feel where my head is from outside mom's tummy. And I guess she can feel my elbows and knees all over her body ;)
I have dreams now! That's so exiting! Although they don't differ much from what I can percept during the day. Guess they will get more interesting when I'll have some experience with the outside world. Unless I believe in C.C. Jung's archetypes and collective unconscious. Am not sure where I stand on that. Will let you know after I finish highschool.
Oh, and since my last post my head grew a little due to rapid brain growth. Also I can scratch myself with my over-the-fingertips nails. Hope mom will let me paint them soon.