Baby Update! (Week 21?)

Zoey
Week 21 (From American Baby):
By the end of this week, he’ll measure about 7 inches from crown to rump and weigh nearly a pound. Not bad for a little guy who weighed barely an ounce 10 weeks ago! His hearing is developing, and sounds from your conversations can be heard inside the uterus–along with your heartbeat, stomach rumblings, and the pulsing of blood vessels. In fact, the womb is so noisy that it’s been compared to an airport runway during takeoff; it’s thought that the stimuli prepare the baby for the cacophony of noises, sights, and sounds that will greet him at birth.

Month Six (From Ask Dr. Sears:

MORE KICKS
If the origin of those faint little flutters were previously in doubt, now there’s no question. You are feeling life. The gentle, butterfly-wing flicks of last month are now becoming definite jabs. If you feel the baby kicking several places at once just remember little thumper has shoulders, elbows, knees, and hands that may all stretch out at once in a uterus in which there is still room enough to maneuver. If your children have not yet felt baby move, get ready for those curious little hands on your abdomen. Once your children feel the kicks, they will continue to get a “kick” out of it and may eagerly anticipate baby’s active times–usually before you go to bed or upon awakening in the morning.
[The Searses have something like 75 kids, so I'm guessing that's why they assume we already have kids.]

SEEING MOVEMENT
Besides feeling more movement, you can now see it. You may be sitting at your desk and look down periodically to see something pounce from beneath your clothes. If you lie on your back you can watch areas of the bulge “bubble up” from beneath. It’s natural to respond to these movements by placing your hand above the punch site, acknowledging what you felt. Next month this magnificent sight will be even more noticeable.

Rona
Rona’s teaching and nesting and walking and eating and napping and a whole lot more stuff. Tomorrow we’re going in for our monthly visit with the midwives.

Evan
“To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.”
–Philip Howard (1933 - )

I’ve been struggling with my computer to get it to believe in its video card. It believes that the card is there, alright, but it doesn’t believe in the card. As far as the computer is concerned, there’s no way that that little piece of add-on equipment could really display all the moving pixels that make up a game or a DVD movie. It believed in the card a couple weeks ago, happily letting it play Buffy episodes in the background while I worked or helping it fire up Neverwinter Nights while I didn’t. But then something happened, and the computer lost its faith in its video card. I’ve been wasting much time proselytizing, singing the praises of the video card. But now it ends. It’s time to swap video cards with the server, which has basically the same card, though a little slower and hopefully a lot stabler.

While I wasn’t arguing with my computer, I was putting together a new page for the upcoming (October) card game Torches & Pitchforks on the Green Ronin Web site. I think it looks pretty cool.