Space is getting cramped in here, but I continue to put on weight and am gaining about an ounce every day.  I currently weigh almost 6 pounds – about the size of a crenshaw melon (un melón crenshaw) and am about 18 inches long.  I am shedding most of the downy covering of hair that covers my body as well as the vernix caseosa, the waxy substance that covered and protected my skin during the nine-month amniotic bath.  As I swallow these substances my body creates meconium, the blackish mixture that will form the contents of my first bowel movement.

My head is down and fixed in that position and I still favor the right side of mom’s uterus.  She continues to feel good but finds herself awake for an hour or so in the middle of the night a few times a week.  This week she will be packing hospital bags and making final preparations for my arrival!