Week 38 official Pregnancy update

The final details are being rounded off before your big launch into the world.

For one, your meconium stockpile is growing (are you ready for your historical first tarry black poo?) as your fat stores continue to increase.

Most importantly, you're rapidly developing a super-brain that is abuzz with new brain cells that'll be growing for years to come.
Woohoo!

~Whether you are born tomorrow (yes!) or next week (aw), you are pretty much 100% ready to face the world outside of your womb.

 

And by "ready", we mean weak, helpless and unable to do anything other than cry, pee, poop, and eat.
Below is a helpful view into your first year and why you're so radically different from the rest of we walking, talking, thinking humans.

Understanding Your World. Between your poor vision and inability to speak or comprehend language, as well as your newness to the entire life-on-Earth gig, you'll understand virtually nothing of the world you're born into.

One critical thing you understand is this: Mama's warm arms = the happiest safest place in the world.

Abstract concepts such as time, language and object permanence remain far beyond your grasp. The many ordinary objects and items that surround you will be almost totally incomprehensible for the first months of your life. Not until you gain the ability to grasp and manipulate objects with your hands, will these things start to become slightly more understandable.

A lack of object permanence causes you to become anxious whenever Momma disappears from sight because you're unable to understand that she will return. Your perception that she has vanished will cause you a clear and obvious distress. You might cry. That cry might can be translated as: "Where did mama go?! Come back now!!! I'm afraid to be alone because this world is confusing and overwhelming without her."

As you develop, you'll become more comfortable when she disappears from your line of sight, and become slowly aware of the fact she will come back again. Explicit knowledge of Momma's permanence in your life won't be possible until nearer the one year mark, although the more she is there for you the more secure you'll feel. The best way to ensure you're feeling safe and happy, is simply to keep Momma as near as you possibly can.

Your Momma is already worry about her arms breaking off from all that baby-carrying, she can keep you snuggled near her body AND have use of her arms by wearing a wrap or baby carrier that supports your bobble-head.

That's you today little man,

Poppy