Baby Bean

  Week #6 11/8/11   Dear Baby Bean, You are now 23 weeks and 2 days. Your ears are developed, along with your fingernails. Your lungs are just beginning though. I think one of the scariest things about premature births is that the lungs are so important but they’re one of the last...

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Week #5 10/31/11  Dear Baby Bean, You’re 22 weeks and 2 day along now, almost a foot long and probably a full pound. You’ve almost reached the point of viability, meaning that if you were born prematurely, there’s a chan...

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Week #4 10/24/11  Dear Baby Bean,  You’re a girl! At least that’s what we saw on the ultrasound on Friday. I had a feeling that you would be a girl. But don’t worry; I’m not a “pink” person. Lovely...

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Dear Baby Bean, You’re 20 weeks and 1 day today, officially halfway here. On Friday we’ll be going to the doctor for a regular appointment and for our anatomy ultrasound. The doctor will make sure that you’re growing the way ...

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Dear Baby Bean, We’re 19 weeks and 1 day along. You should be about 6.5 oz and more than 10 inches long. Your nervous system is developing very rapidly and beginning to produce myelin. You don’t know what that is, of course, but so...

One of my goals is to write a weekly letter to my baby for the next 2.75 years, so I'm going to start right now. This is letter #1. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Dear Baby Bean, We’re 18 weeks and 1 day along right now, almost halfway through the average pregnancy. N...