A Boz Family Update...Week 29

We turned 29 weeks today and everything is going by the book. We did switch Obstetricians midstream, but we did it for financial and not care issues, and the new OB seems to have it together so that is a good thing. Emilee also passed her glucose test so we do not have to worry about gestational diabetes. That was a huge relief because if Emilee had problems with diabetes during her pregnancy then it greatly increases the risk that the baby will end up with Type I diabetes and then they have to monitor it for life. Plus a lot of women that have gestational diabetes end up giving birth to enormous (10+ pound) babies and Emilee was not down with that! BTW, the largest birth weight ever is 19.2 pounds! And yes it was a C-Section.

Week 29 is suppossed to be the week where Emilee starts having to go pee every 5 minutes. I can inform you that the books were off by about 29 weeks on this one. We also get the following stuff going on in week 29 (courtesy of whattoexpect.com):

Your baby is almost 17 inches tall now (nearly as tall as he or she will be at birth), and close to three pounds (a weight that will likely more than double — and may even come close to tripling — by delivery time). His or her wrinkled skin is smoothing out as more fat is deposited under the skin surface. This fat, called white fat, is different from the earlier brown fat that your developing fetus accumulated. Brown fat is necessary for body temperature regulation while white fat (the fat you have, Mom) actually serves as an energy source.

Which explains why your energizer baby feels so…well…energized! Space in your baby's living quarters is now at a premium, so you'll be feeling jabs and pokes from elbows and knees mostly. But those kicks will be more vigorous than before (and also less erratic) because your baby is stronger and excitedly responding to all sorts of stimuli — movement, sounds, light, and that candy bar you ate half an hour ago.

We also closed on our new house this week. Tuesday was the most expensive day in the history of our family, but it will definitely be worth it. I have caught some good natured flak about moving to Dawsonville, but I know that we would be kicking ourselves in the ass 5 years from now if we had not done it. The fact that we were able to find a renter for the townhouse in less than a week also was abig help. As we all know, sometime a plan just comes together. Now the fun begins....We are moving this weekend.

Everytime I move I am reminded of a couple of events from moves of the past. Some are happy and some not so much. But, I will never forget helping the Barnett's move printing equipment from Joe Phillips' shop off Panola Road. There is one main reason this move sticks out in my head, and it was not the 1907 bluegrss music that we were forced to endure while in the old shop. It was the trailer Trevor and I were towing to move the equipment. If any of you have ever towed an open 12' trailer you know that sometimes they act up a bit. Well ours was acting up like a 12 year old who forgot to take his Ritalin. Trevor's fix for the squirrleyness of the trailer was to stomp on the accelerator.

This had the desired effect of straightening out the trailer for about 500 feet and then we would have to do the whole process over again. After almost slamming into the wall on 285 for the third time we finally pulled over. What we found was scary. One of the wheels on the trailer, which was held on by 4 lugs, was attached to the trailer by one lug that was about an 1/8th of an inch from breaking loose! We had that thing fishtailing all over the interstate. Looking back at the event I am surprised that no one got hurt.

Stay Safe,

Rob