First off, thanks to Jym Davis for sending us this genius little diagram. Right now Heidi is at 6 1/2 months so that puts the top of her uterus right at the belly button.
We’ve been reading a book every night that tells us what is happening to our baby boy’s body day by day. Here are a couple of the recent highlights:
- His lungs are now capable of breathing air
- The buds of his permanent teeth have already come in high behind his baby teeth
- His eyelids have unfused and can open – in fact, he can move his eyes and practice looking
- His brain can already process visual and auditory information and control his body temperature and breathing rhythms (that last one helps with crying)
- He’s already practicing sucking and swallowing
- Right now his skin is wrinkled but is smoothing out as he now starts accumulating white body fat
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Ok, so this is a bit off topic but it does have to do with babies so I had to post it.
Apparently, there is a Japanese contest/ceremony to pray for babies’ health and it involves sumo wrestlers holding the babies up as they cry. Can’t wait to sign Trey up for that one!
More photos at Yahoo!
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When pregnant, an expectant mother usually does everything in her power to avoid exposing herself or her baby to harm. I’ve been very vigilant, but on Sunday night and Monday morning when I realized that the redness and itching on my chest and abdomen seemed to be much more than simply stretching skin, I began to panic. Last week in my pediatric clinic, I diagnosed a child with having “slapped cheek” or “fifth disease.” It is a rash caused by the parvovirus B19. For children and adults it is virtually harmless and it resolves spontaneously without treatment. Well, in all my medical books, it states that people with sickle cell disease, the immunocompromised, and PREGNANT women should stay away from children with known infection. Fetal death is a possible complication for a woman exposed in pregnancy. Of course, I washed my hands, used gloves, and tried not to get too close to my patient, but I realized I had still exposed myself. My attending tried to aleve any fears by telling me that there have only been 3 known cases in a 100-year literature search for severe complications. Ok, so that made me feel better, until I woke up Monday morning with a horrible, itchy rash.
Continue reading ‘Medical Student Syndrome (pregnancy edition)’
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