Saturday, April 18, 2009

34 weeks!


Olivia:
Our baby is tipping the scales at 6 or more poun. She is running out of room in there and is always pushing against my belly. The protective vernix coating on Olivia's skin is becoming thicker, but the lanugo hair is almost gone. Now that her brain has formed billions of neurons, it must accomplish the even more complex feat of hooking the neurons and synapses together. Olivia's brain is forming trillions of connections, making it possible for her to learn in the womb. All of this brain development may be the reason that your she sleeps frequently at this stage. She may even be dreaming—her eyes dart around rapidly just as an adult's might in REM sleep. Her development is in no way complete at birth. In the first year after birth, a baby's brain triples in size and becomes three-quarters of its adult size.

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