31 Week Update time is flying by!

Your baby's arms, legs and body continue to fill out -- and they are finally proportional in size to her head. She weighs about 3.3 pounds/1.5 kilograms and looks more like a newborn. She measures about 16 inches from crown to toe and is heading into a growth spurt.. She's quite large already but not yet developed enough to thrive outside the incubator. His temperature regulation system is not fully developed, so he cannot keep himself warm. Moreover, your baby has not yet built up sufficient resistance and, as a result, if he were living outside of you, he would be sensitive to infections.

Because it keeps getting more cramped in your abdomen, your baby can no longer move as freely as before. His kicks are pretty powerful now, so that you can sometimes 'catch' his foot. But it can also happen that you must wait a long time for him to stick something out. It is a nice game to make contact with your baby.

Your baby's organs are continuing to mature and she is passing water from her bladder: good practice for the urinating she'll do after she's born. Soon you can wonder what your baby is wishing for -- brain scans have shown that fetuses have periods of dream sleep around month eight.

In a few weeks your baby will "engage." Then his little head (hopefully) will descend into the pelvis and stay there. The advantage is that the pressure on your stomach will lessen, so that you won't experience as much heartburn as before. But, the pressure on your bladder will increase, so you'll have to pee even more than before, if such a thing is possible!

Makayla and I have a doctor appt. today so I will update you on what goes on tomorrow.