MonthFour
 | CONGRATULATIONS! You got your positive pregnancy test and now you’re looking forward to the next nine months wondering and dreaming about the future. Will your little one be a boy or a girl and what will you name them? Them? What if its twins… or triplets? Will they be healthy? Where will you deliver? How will you deliver? So many questions, so many choices; how will you decide? Perhaps only one other event in your life had as much planning as your pregnancy will have… your wedding. Just like your wedding, you’re preparing to add another being to your life; unlike your wedding… this being is going to be depending on you for the foreseeable future. |
Month 4: Hair, eyebrows, eyelashes, fingernails and toenails are forming. There are vocal cords and taste buds and your little one can now suck its thumb! The baby begins a growth spurt in length and weight, and is now about 7 in. long and weighs about 5 oz. Ears, arms, hands, fingers, legs, feet and toes are completely formed. Reflex movements allow the elbows to bend, legs to kick and fingers to form a fist. The heart is beating about 120 to 160 beats a minute and blood circulates through the umbilical cord to the baby. About 1 cup of amniotic fluid surrounds your little one in the sac. The kidneys circulate the fluid swallowed by the baby back into the amniotic sac. The baby is still too tiny for you to feel movement on a regular basis (mothers of twins may begin to feel more frequent movement).
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Choice
Where do babies come from? Don't bother asking adults. They lie like pigs. However, diligent independent research and hours of playground consultation have yielded fruitful, if tentative, results. There are several theories. Near as we can figure out, it has something to do with acting ridiculous in the dark. We believe it is similar to dogs when they act peculiar and ride each other. This is called "making love". Careful study of popular song lyrics, advertising catch-lines, TV sitcoms, movies, and T-Shirt inscriptions offers us significant clues as to its nature. Apparently it makes grown-ups insipid and insane. Some graffiti was once observed that said 'sex is good'. All available evidence, however, points to the contrary.
~Matt Groening (Creator of 'The Simpsons')
Melissa
Melissa is a 35 year old Army wife to her deployed husband, and the mother of three girls. Two are toddlers and the third is a teen, lending to her bouts of insanty. Melissa and her husband Tom are still deciding whether or not they will have "one more" while Melissa tries to figure out how to convince Tom that homebirth is a good thing.
