25 Weeks

It's amazing to me how fast, yet slow the process of "creating", or baking a baby goes. Fast yet slow!

What To Expect When You Are Expecting has this to say about Griffin's progress:

At nine inches and more than a pound and a half in weight, your baby is taller than two juice boxes stacked one on top of the other, and almost as heavy as four of those little boxes (an analogy you'll find particularly apropos in a few years, when those juice boxes start taking over your refrigerator, your pantry, your car.…). Don't look now (as if you could), but your baby's skin is turning pinker. No, not because he or she's getting overheated (in fact, the amniotic fluid is perfectly climate controlled, keeping your baby at an always comfortable temperature), but because small blood vessels, called capillaries, are forming under the skin and filling with blood. Later this week, blood vessels will also develop in your baby's lungs, bringing them one step closer to full maturity — and one step closer to taking that first breath of fresh air. But at 25 weeks pregnant, those lungs are still very much works in progress. Though they are already beginning to develop surfactant, a substance that will help the lungs expand after the baby is born, the lungs are still too undeveloped to sufficiently send oxygen to the bloodstream and release carbon dioxide when he or she exhales.

The lungs aren't the only system that's gearing up for air intake. Your baby's nostrils, which have been plugged up until now, are starting to open this week. This actually allows your little one to begin taking practice breaths. (Of course since there's no air in there, your baby is really only "breathing" amniotic fluid, but it's the practice that counts, right?)

Wow! How incredible! What a miracle it is that is going on inside me!

I finally got my camera working again! Yay! So now I have some past pictures that I have to put up.

This is my 21 week bump.

Here is my 22 week bump.

This is the "mommy view"! I said goodbye to my feet a long time ago!

Here is my bump now! 25 weeks!

(please pardon the nasty mirror! That's what happens when the hubby has his own bathroom and that's the only one that has enough room to take belly pictures.) :)

Looking at my son!