20 Weeks

20 weeks,

Wow 20 weeks pregnant already, even though the baby is going to be early, it’s good to know that my little one is half baked now. Jason was asking last night how much longer I thought we had before the baby is born, because his mom was asking how many weeks I am. When I told her 20, he was like wow, so about 8-9 weeks left? I don’t want to think of it that way, so I told him Landon was born 11 weeks from now, and Aden 13 from now, he said yep and they keep getting earlier, so we have 9 weeks left, “ I do not think we have more than 9 weeks.” Uhh….. I already do not like to but am always thinking when will this baby be here and how early, will I be prepared, I read up on each week and how it would be for the first few years with a ___ weaker, but for him to say it is different. I really thought one of us was thinking I would go longer this time, but I guess we think a like. So in 9 weeks I will be right at 29 weeks, and wile it is earlier and the baby would weigh less than Landon and Aden did, probably between two and a half and three and a half pounds, with all my reading I have found that NICU’s tend to group preemies together by age. Under 24-26 weekers do about the same, although 26 weekers do have better odds, 27-31 weekers are grouped together, and 32-34 are together, 35-37 are almost term and can normally stay in the well baby nursery or with mom and go home in a few days with mom too. So what does it mean that they are “grouped” together, not much really, just that babies born in those weeks normally do about the same follow the same course as far as treatments, breathing, feedings and their length of stay at the NICU they also have about the same number of office trips after discharge. I have had a 31 weeker already so I feel if 27, 29, and 29 weekers about the same I could handle it, even if they were a pound lighter.