25 weeks!

Goodness gracious... I feel like since about my 8th week of pregnancy until now time has FLOWN by. I am so very excited but now I am thinking about all that needs to be done before then. Lately my thoughts have been "what if this little one come early." Although I am ready to meet this little one it freaks me out to think about the "what ifs." Wednesday is my first official day that I have to report back to school but tomorrow begins the adventure of putting my classroom back together after MAJOR construction. With school starting I seem to get more and more paranoid about this little one coming early. I know that the principals have picked a suitable substitute and I am sure she will do a fabulous job but it just scares me to have to leave my "children" in someone else's hands. So I try not to think about it. I try to think that I will carry this baby to full term and that with Christmas break during my maternity leave, I will only be away from my "children" four weeks. We shall see!
Let's see... this week in my pregnancy.... our baby is about 1.5 pounds and is somewhere between 9-13 inches long. (I know it seems like a huge range/difference but everything I read is different). The structures of his spine are starting to form, including 33 vertebrae (rings of bone), 150 joints, and 1,000 ligaments. These structures will eventually support your baby's body weight. Your baby's capillaries are also forming this week. Capillaries are the tiny blood vessels that move blood from the heart to tissues in the body. By the end of week 25, air sacs and blood vessels in your baby's lungs will develop, getting him ready for his first breath. So far in your pregnancy, your little one's nostrils have been plugged up, but they are now beginning to open up.

I have been really thinking about booking a 3D/4D sonogram. I would LOVE to see what this little one looks like but then again I start thinking.... do I really want to or do I want to wait. I know that Buddy is scared that if we do the sonogram that we will accidentally find out if it's a boy or girl but I think that we could tell the sonographer and they would be really careful not to "reveal" this little one's gender. We will see though. The website to the place that I would use says that it is best to do it between weeks 25-32 so I am just now at the point that it would be ok to actually do the sonogram so we will see what we decide. Ok well this is my second post for today and I already have another subject that I would like to post about but I might wait until tomorrow. This weekend has been busy!!