This baby is now viable!
It feels like such a big event this time. I know bad things still happen after 24 weeks, I understand that. But there's some security in knowing that the chances of survival are much higher this week and that he would now be viewed as his own person, a separate patient with his own team of medical workers if something would happen before it should. That's saying SO much compared to last week, where he'd be considered a late natural abortion and be put somewhere comfortable, not hooked up to machines or treated to help survival. This baby, from now on, has a serious fighting chance of survival outside of my womb if that would need to happen.
And in about two or four weeks? The survival rate sky rockets to about 80% and only continues to climb higher and higher after that.
After spending a full four months scared to do anything, afraid to go to the bathroom or do too much activity or even breathe wrong, this is so huge for me. Everything that happened with Elizabeth happened so recently still that it has impacted this pregnancy in multiple ways. While this pregnancy has been such a blessing physically with no complications, mentally and emotionally it's been very difficult. I struggled a lot in first trimester and part of second trimester. I finally feel like I'm over a hump, but having the security of this latest milestone helped even more.
I feel like I'm mentally throwing myself a little party for the two of us. What's funny is baby, who's been asleep for a while, just woke up to join the party and is dancing away in there. I can definitely believe he's over a foot long now, because wow does he take up so much room! I told Bill how big baby is now and he said "but he can't fit in there that big yet, you're not big enough!" I certainly don't feel big enough most of the time, it also seems like baby is going to pop right out of my skin! He's definitely running out of room and pushing to try and make more. I think he's hoping I start growing, and I think he's going through a growth spurt too. This whole week I've had a normal appetite, nothing big, and then today I could not stop eating. I out-ate Bill and Katie combined!
Just four weeks until third tri. I can hardly believe it! These weeks are going by faster and faster, I'll be holding this baby before I know it!
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