Week 25-Mom and Dad your baby is the size of an eggplant!

Moms, the past week has seen some major changes going on in that pregnant body of yours.  Compare a photo of yourself at the 24^th week and now.  See how much rounder your belly is?  This time of the pregnancy is really special to those around you, so be sure to take plenty of photos.  Some pregnant Moms don’t like having their photos taken, (not looking at Mommy Mojo…..) but those photos make a great time capsule for your family down the road.

Ladies, some of you may become familiar with Braxton Hicks.  Braxton Hicks may sound like the latest hippie singer at your local coffee shop but in reality they’re a series of contractions that might start about this time.  These contractions might be something like a pain free birth or an infant who sleeps through the night.  Oh wait, contractions and not contradictions?  Then those contractions are about 20x worse than your worst menstrual cramp.

Dads, for the point of clarification I just asked Mommy Mojo what a contraction felt like.  “It’s about 20 times worse than a menstrual cramp”, she said.  It’s as if I asked a question in English and was given a response in Gaelic.  Dads, don’t worry about the phonetic pronunciation of Gaelic, it’s a Celtic language that only leprechauns and pretty dancing people on PBS speak.

So since Dads can’t relate to what a menstrual cramp feels like, we’ll go out on a limb and guess that it’s like a really bad burrito that you get from Taco Bell.  Every sixth burrito gets us funky; every 30^th burrito gets us really funky.   Not the dancing kind of funky that looks good at parties; this is the bad funky that makes your stomach hurt and the bathroom fan stay on for half an hour.

Ladies on the very positive site of the pregnancy during week 25 you may start to show signs of your teenage youth again!  Unfortunately the bad news is that this is happening because your old friend acne may be appearing again.  Yup, if you’re complexion is getting spotty it’s not because you’ve been listening to too much Braxton Hicks; it’s just your body going through some changes.

At this point in your pregnancy the baby weighs about a pound and half to 2.2 pounds.  Your little dude or princess has also established their equilibrium.  It’s as if the tiny Segway inside your womb has figured out which way to go, and right now their race track is quite limited in scenery.

Yeah, inside the mind of Dads, a little part of us still thinks that little passenger inside Mom is chilling out to Pink Floyd.  That soundtrack is much better than the one that Braxton Hicks would play.  His soundtrack would be more like Lilith Fair fodder and that gets old after the second Indigo Girls song.