We scheduled our childbirth education classes yesterday for late June/July. We're taking a hospital tour, baby care basics, a breastfeeding class, and Save a Baby, which teaches baby safety and lifesaving techniques. Here's what's going on with the little one this week.
week 17
Your baby weighs 5 ounces now (about as much as a turnip), and he's around 5 inches long. He can move his joints, and his skeleton—until now rubbery cartilage—is starting to harden to bone. His sense of hearing is also developing. The umbilical cord, his lifeline to the placenta, is growing stronger and thicker.
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Those classes sound like a really good idea. They didn't have classes that I knew of back in the old days. I am not so patiently waiting for our little turnip to arrive.
The classes will be helpful. I wouldn't have made it through breastfeeding without the class I took while pregnant. And our childbirth class (culminating in a hospital tour) really helped us know what to expect. Steve had been through it before, but things had changed "just" a bit. Enjoy!
Childbirth classes will be very beneficial for both of you.
I delivered my first at 34 weeks and we had attended only 2 classes, but those were very helpful.
Gramma is counting the months,weeks,days!
Does this baby have a nickname, such as turnip, peanut, little one, baby bean.....
The baby's nickname is Sandy because at one point Sandy was the size of a grain of sand.
I guess now, her name could really BE Sandy!
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