Week 24 - Baby Audrey is here

We were in Austin this weekend to meet our niece Audrey.  Ruth had a great delivery which was very short and Audrey was born right away.  She is absolutely beautiful and I could not but love her instantly.  She is a very sweet girl and an awesome baby!  She is sleeping very well through the night, only gets up two times or so to eat.  I barely heard her cry the whole time we were there.  Andrew has been a very good big brother and likes to carry her and tell her "no llores" - don't cry - when she fuzzes.  He is a very helpful little boy who loves to help in the kitchen, specially cracking eggs :)  Andrew and us went to the zoo on Saturday to give mom and dad some down time and we had a lot of fun.  Here is a picture of her.




Sofia will have great cousins to play with when she's here.

She has been a busy baby the mean time.  I can feel her move now and she's awake most of the day or moving at least.  I can't believe she will be here in 4 months, I'm getting super excited!!!

This week she will be concentrating on completing the face features, all the way to the eyelashes.  But for right now, all the hair is white as the pigmentation has not set in.  Her inner ear has developed enough to give her a sense of balance and whether she's right side up or up side down in her amniotic sac.  She will be gaining about 6oz or 170 grams per week.

Changes to mom include a shift in hormone production.  For the first 20 weeks, the body makes more progesterone.  At 21 to 22 weeks the body makes equal amounts of progesterone and estrogen, but from week 24 on it will be mostly estrogen.  One of the odd symptoms I just read about is red and itchy hands.  I just thought I was doing the dishes too much but it is actually a symptom of pregnancy... ha!

This weekend we will stay home and tackle a mantel piece that we bought for the living room.  We will also start cleaning out the office to make way for the nursery.  I need to order the crib here soon, I read they may take a while to be delivered.