I still can't believe this pregnancy is more than half over, but here we are at 24 weeks. According to babycenter.com, Baby Girl Helms is growing steadily, and has gained about a quarter of a pound since last week, when she was just over a pound. Since she's almost a foot long (picture an ear of corn), that makes a pretty lean figure, but her body is filling out proportionally and she'll soon put on more baby fat. Her skin is thin, translucent, and wrinkled, her brain is growing rapidly, and her taste buds are developing. Her lungs are developing "branches" of the respiratory "tree" and cells that produce surfactant, a substance that helps the air sacs inflate easily.
She kicked me in the ribs (twice) for the first time on the drive back from the girls' weekend at the beach (you can read about the trip here on our other blog). It wasn't painful, really, just a strange sensation, for sure.
Next week is the glucose screening... mmm sickly sweet orange drink and a blood draw... can't wait.
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