Gehbauer Family Blog: Pregnancy #2

28 weeks down, only 12 more to go. We officially hit the 3rd trimester last week. Things continue to go well. Abby is definitely a mover. Especially between 8pm and 10pm . I'm really hoping that doesn't mean she won't be a good sleeper at night. :) I continue to get increasingly clumsy. I had a small fall about 2 weeks ago - nothing serious. I was backing up and tripped over a stool. Landed on my behind. Then last week I tripped over Owen's humidifier and went down on one knee (a little scarier since I was holding Owen at the time). Abby and Owen are fine. So am I - I just get super sore each time. Nothing some tylenol and a few days won't fix. But for the most part I am feeling pretty great now!

Head to heels, Abby now measures about 14.8 inches. Her weight is about a 2 1/4 lbs. She can blink her eyes, which now sport lashes (supposedly - but every newborn I've seen has no eyelashes or eyebrows). With her eyesight developing, she may be able to see the light that filters in through my womb. She's also developing billions of neurons in her brain and adding more body fat in preparation for life in the outside world.

Below is the latest belly pic and some comparisons from my first pregnancy. I didn't have week 28 or 29 pics from my first pregnancy, so I picked out a few for comparison. I think I'm closest to 30 weeks from the pics. You can see in the week 32 picture from the first time around that that's when the swelling really started to be obvious although weight-wise I'd been swelling for about 3 weeks by then. So I'll be interested to see if I start swelling in the next 4 weeks or so. I really hope not. 57lbs of water just from swelling last time was pretty awful.

Pregnancy #2 - 28 Weeks