Happy Turkey Day to all our friends and family!! We hope everyone had a fun and thankful day. John spent the day working on school stuff and visited his mom for a couple hours to eat some delicious grub. I spent my turkey day at work taking care of sick patients. I am very thankful to have a job and to work with a wonderful group of people. I feel very blessed in that regard.
This week marks baby and mine's 16 weeks together. It was a non-eventful week for us. The baby is barely popping out of my belly. But I am definitely experiencing some growing pains. On Turkey Day it felt like someone had punched me in the stomach. Everything that I read says that baby should be hitting a growth spurt by now, and I have to assume that means my little belly will be hitting a growth spurt as well. Baby should be 4 1/2 inches long from head to rump and 3 1/2 ounces in weight. About the size of a mango. Baby's heart is now pumping 25 quarts of blood each day and this number will continue to rise; as an average adult heart pumps 5 liters of blood per minute. The tiny bones in the baby's ears are now in place, making it likely that baby can hear my voice when I speak or sing. So baby will begin to know my voice and the music I listen to. I plan on giving this child an eclectic taste in music.
An update on our poor little pup. He is going in to have surgery tomorrow morning. Through all the stresses of his last surgery and developing a infection on his neck from the stupid cone he had to wear, he developed cherry eye. Which is a bulge in the gland of his inner eyelid. It has to be removed or it will cause problems later for our Brutus. Soooooo here we go again. . . . round 2 in surgery. Poor little guy!
We hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving! We have a baby appointment on Monday. So hopefully there is more updates to share next week. Lots of Love to all!!
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