This Sunday we had a Superbowl party at our house complete with chili footballs, jambalaya, pasta salad, brownies, pinwheels, queso, guac, fruit salad etc. We had the fire pit roaring outside on the patio and the crowd roaring inside for the Saints.
Okay this is getting serious. If it weren't for modern day grooming techniques, I could pass for a recent descendant of Chewbaca. If I get my eyebrows waxed on Tuesday, they are bushy by Wednesday evening. My hair is growing so fast my head looks like a fashion forward ombre color palet from Diane Von Furstenburg's Spring 2009 collection. (Think tye-dyed ... goes from dark to light). Sooo I have made the executive decision to strip the bottle blond color and go au natural. Let's get one thing straight--I do have blond hair, it's just not THIS light naturally! (obv) Plus, there is a lot of controversy about coloring your hair while you're pregnant. I don't really believe everything I hear; if it were so bad for the baby, then how do so many hairdressers I know have healthy kids? Besides, women have been having babies for thousands of years through famine, wartime and much more extreme conditions than hair salons present. What if hair color really was dangerous? I can see it now: "Run for the hills! Hide the women and children! The terrorists are coming and they're armed with bottles of hair color!" (Satire) I digress...of course anything natural and chemical free would be the best option for baby growing conditions but trying to achieve that in today's environment would force one to live in a plastic bubble for nine months. Ummm No thanks. However, as a Mom-to-be it's important to cut out whatever chemicals I can here and there.
Weekly Womb Workings:
The most dramatic development this week is the baby's reflexes. The fingers will soon begin to open and close, his toes will curl, his eye muscles will clench, and his mouth will make sucking movements. His intestines, which have grown so fast that they protrude into the umbilical cord, will start to move into his abdominal cavity about now, and his kidneys will begin excreting urine into his bladder. Meanwhile, nerve cells are multiplying rapidly, and in the baby's brain, synapses are forming furiously. His face looks unquestionably human: His eyes have moved from the sides to the front of his head, and his ears are right where they should be. From crown to rump, our baby-to-be is just over 2 inches long (about the size of a lime) and weighs half an ounce.
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