V-day - or Viability Day - is the milestone where your baby, if born, has a 50/50 chance of survival. It's amazing with technology today that such small babies, not yet developed in many ways, can be born and turn out healthy. Baby Katelyn has been advised she must wait until 37 weeks minimum, and it's good to know lots of prayers are keeping her put!!
Today's update: How your baby's growing:
Your baby's growing steadily, having gained about 4 ounces since last week. That puts her at just over a pound. Since she's almost a foot long, she cuts a pretty lean figure at this point, but her body is filling out proportionally and she'll soon start to plump up. Her brain is also growing quickly now, and her taste buds are continuing to develop. Her lungs are developing "branches" of the respiratory "tree" as well as cells that produce surfactant, a substance that will help her air sacs inflate once she hits the outside world. Her skin is still thin and translucent, but that will start to change soon.
How your life's changing:In the past few weeks, the top of your uterus has risen above your belly button and is now about the size of a soccer ball.
- - A soccer ball, huh? And I'm still being told at least once a week that I don't look pregnant. Nice! That will soon change! :)
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