27 Weeks

New symptom of pregnancy: ELEPHANT FEET/ANKLES! (the exclamation point is only for the sarcasm of my excitement, not the real thing). When we arrived in Kentucky on Saturday my feet were still fairly normal looking... after an hour or so in Burlington they were beginning to swell... about midway through a game of Monopoly my feet were so swollen (Ricas described them as looking like I had pads on my feet and you should be able to hear them slap as I walk/ I say they looked as if I was the extra for Professor Klump in the Nutty Professor). Despite how much I try to prop my feet up, avoid sodium and do all the other things I've been told the swelling continues =(

On the lighter side of things, I feel great! We are going to order the crib and some other "big things" here in the next few days... all of this preparation is making it all the more real!
New this week: This week, your baby weighs almost 2 pounds like a head of cauliflower) and is about 14 1/2 inches long with her legs extended. She's sleeping and waking at regular intervals, opening and closing her eyes, and perhaps even sucking her fingers. With more brain tissue developing, your baby's brain is very active now. While her lungs are still immature, they would be capable of functioning — with a lot of medical help — if she were to be born now. Chalk up any tiny rhythmic movements you may be feeling to a case of baby hiccups, which may be common from now on. Each episode usually lasts only a few moments, and they don't bother her, so just relax and enjoy the tickle.