{"id":133,"date":"2011-07-31T09:14:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T14:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/?p=133"},"modified":"2011-07-31T09:14:25","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T14:14:25","slug":"26-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"26 weeks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What&#8217;s going on this week:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The network of nerves in your baby&#8217;s ears is better developed and more sensitive than before. He may now be able to hear both your voice and your partner&#8217;s as you chat with each other. He&#8217;s inhaling and exhaling small amounts of amniotic fluid, which is essential for the development of his lungs. These so-called breathing movements are also good practice for when he&#8217;s born and takes that first gulp of air. And he&#8217;s continuing to put on baby fat. He now weighs about a pound and two-thirds and measures 14 inches (an English hothouse cucumber) from head to heel. If you&#8217;re having a boy, his testicles are beginning to descend into his scrotum \u2014 a trip that will take about two to three days.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>My Update: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Due Date: November 4, 2011 \u2013 98 days to go!\u00a0 (Double digits!!)<\/p>\n<p>Weight Gain: +12 lbs (from pre-preg weight).<\/p>\n<p>Symptoms:\u00a0 I&#8217;m having great hair lately&#8230;it&#8217;s not falling out constantly like normal and is nice and shiny.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been nice to not have to constantly pluck it off my clothes all day long.<\/p>\n<p>Cravings\/Aversions: Still nothing&#8230;I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m going to develop any dramatic aversions or anything this pregnancy.\u00a0 No change here.<\/p>\n<p>Sleep:\u00a0 Still good! I just want more and more.<\/p>\n<p>I am loving:\u00a0 That we get to go pick up the crib and glider and ottoman!\u00a0 Thankfully they didn&#8217;t take long at all to come in, so soon, they will be in the room.\u00a0 Now, as to when we will actually put them together, I have no idea.<\/p>\n<p>I miss:\u00a0 All my visitors.\u00a0 And especially Ada.\u00a0 It was so nice having such a sweet and cuddly baby in the house.<\/p>\n<p>Movement:\u00a0 Good!\u00a0 Even the midwife got her hand kicked during my appt this week!<\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em> Nursery progress:\u00a0 I took some pictures of the piles of stuff that are currently in there, and the bassinet and cradle, but I&#8217;ll post those in a different post.<\/p>\n<p>Exercise: I went to yoga this week, and we did a lot of relaxation, which was just what I needed given how hectic and stressful the week had been after dealing with all our visitors leaving and trying to get work as caught up and settled as possible before I started working from home.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to: Getting the baby furniture and starting to work from home next week.\u00a0 Yessssss!<\/p>\n<p>Belly Shot:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Julie-Week-26.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-135\" title=\"Julie - Week 26\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Julie-Week-26-173x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Julie-Week-26-173x300.jpg 173w, http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Julie-Week-26-591x1024.jpg 591w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 173px) 100vw, 173px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s going on this week: The network of nerves in your baby&#8217;s ears is better developed and more sensitive than before. He may now be able to hear both your voice and your partner&#8217;s as you chat with each other. He&#8217;s inhaling and exhaling small amounts of amniotic fluid, which is essential for the development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,3],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2nd-trimester","tag-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}