How your baby’s growing: Your baby now weighs about 4 3/4 pounds (like your average cantaloupe) and is almost 18 inches long. His fat layers — which will help regulate his body temperature once he’s born — are filling him out, making him rounder. His skin is also smoother than ever. His central nervous system is maturing and his lungs …
Your pregnancy: 33 weeks How your baby’s growing:This week your baby weighs a little over 4 pounds (heft a pineapple – which by the way the picture to the left could be one of the scariest pictures I have ever seen) and has passed the 17-inch mark. He’s rapidly losing that wrinkled, alien look and his skeleton is hardening. The …
Your pregnancy: 32 weeks How your baby’s growing: By now, your baby weighs 3.75 pounds (pick up a large jicama) and is about 16.7 inches long, taking up a lot of space in your uterus. You’re gaining about a pound a week and roughly half of that goes right to your baby. In fact, he’ll gain a third to half …
Your pregnancy: 31 weeks How your baby’s growing: This week, your baby measures over 16 inches long. He weighs about 3.3 pounds (try carrying four navel oranges) and is heading into a growth spurt. He can turn his head from side to side, and his arms, legs, and body are beginning to plump out as needed fat accumulates underneath his …
Your pregnancy: 30 weeks Click to enlarge How your baby’s growing: Your baby’s about 15.7 inches long now, and he weighs almost 3 pounds (like a head of cabbage). A pint and a half of amniotic fluid surrounds him, but that volume will decrease as he gets bigger and takes up more room in your uterus. His eyesight continues to …
Your pregnancy: 29 weeks Click to enlarge How your baby’s growing: Your baby now weighs about 2 1/2 pounds (like a butternut squash – see below) and is a tad over 15 inches long from head to heel. His muscles and lungs are continuing to mature, and his head is growing bigger to make room for his developing brain. To …
The third trimester is finally here! Amanda is at 28 weeks with the lil’ “Obster” on the way! She is doing fantastic, and Obadiah kicked me last night when I was shining a flash light at her belly and singing songs to him. I already love this kid’s personality! How your baby’s growing: By this week, your baby weighs two …
How your baby’s growing: This week your baby weighs almost 2 pounds (like a head of cauliflower) and is about 14.4 inches long with his legs extended. He can now open and close his eyes, and he sleeps and wakes at regular intervals. He may suck his fingers, and although his lungs are still immature, they would be capable of …
How your baby’s growing: Your baby now weighs about a pound and two-thirds and measures 14 inches (an English hothouse cucumber), from head to heel. The nerve pathways in his ears are developing, which means his response to sounds is growing more consistent. [We have definitely noticed this reality. I will start singing to him, and he starts acting up. …
How your baby’s growing: Head to heels, your baby now measures about 13 1/2 inches. His weight — a pound and a half — isn’t much more than an average rutabaga, but he’s beginning to exchange his long, lean look for some baby fat. As he does, his wrinkled skin will begin to smooth out and he’ll start to look …
How your baby’s growing: Your baby’s growing steadily, gaining about a quarter of a pound since last week, when he was just over a pound. Since he’s almost a foot long (picture an ear of corn), that makes a pretty lean figure, but his body is filling out proportionally and he’ll soon put on more baby fat. Your baby’s skin …
Lil’ Obadiah is measuring at 23 weeks today – woo hoo! We’re getting closer and closer to May all the time! Last night, Amanda told me he was kicking a bunch, but I couldn’t tell if I felt it or not because she kept giggling. But tonight was different – my son kicked me five times. My hand jumped – …
How your baby’s growing: Your baby now looks like a miniature newborn, checking in at 10.9 inches (the length of a spaghetti squash) and almost 1 pound. His skin will continue to appear wrinkled until he gains enough weight to fill it out, and the fine hair (lanugo) that covers his head and body is now visible. His lips are …
In the traveling journey for Baby Agnew, we should be at week 20, but when we saw lil’ Obadiah in the ultrasound, the nurse told us that he was actually measuring a week ahead. Amanda was thrilled to hear this since the men in my family have normally been large boys at birth. So, our due date has moved from …
The Agnew clan would like to wish you a Merry Christmas in a very special way. Click on the picture for our special greeting.
How your baby’s growing: Your baby weighs about 8 1/2 ounces, and he measures 6 inches, head to bottom — about the size of a large heirloom tomato. His arms and legs are in the right proportions to each other and the rest of his body now. His kidneys continue to make urine, and the hair on his scalp is …
(My previous post – down below this one – tells about how we found out about if we were getting a boy or a girl). Some of you might have already heard our name ideas for Baby Agnew. We had picked out some good boy names and some good girl names, but we were more constant about the name for …
Today was the day that Amanda and I went for the ultrasound. We were really anxious this morning and woke up real early. I went and took Amanda to school so we could ride together. I’ll have to be honest – we were totally unbiased about whether or not it was a boy or a girl. There are so many …
Wow. It’s already eighteen weeks along for Baby Agnew. It’s kinda hard to believe. Amanda has been doing spectacular. She is such a trooper, and she’s been doing great. She’s begun to feel some flips in her stomach down there. Whoever it is down there is starting to make his/her presence known for sure. Which brings me to a critical …
How your baby’s growing: Your baby weighs 5 ounces now (about as much as a turnip), and he’s around 5 inches long. He can move his joints, and his skeleton — until now rubbery cartilage — is starting to harden to bone. His sense of hearing is also developing. The umbilical cord, his lifeline to the placenta, is growing stronger …
It is officially week 16 today. That means that Baby Agnew has been in the womb for four out of the nine months! We are getting there. We are about sixteen days away from finding out the sex of our baby and we are pretty stoked. I’ve got some great baby names picked out, but if you have any suggestions, …
Happy Thanksgiving everybody! Here’s a list of what I’m thankful for today: Jesus brought me too far just to leave me (He’s still working on me). The gift of the Holy Spirit – a guide like none other The promise of eternity – I get to be with Jesus forever with no more sin and no more tears The Word …
How your baby’s growing: We’re going to find out if we are getting a boy or girl in a few weeks, but until then, here is what is happenning: Your growing baby now measures about 4 inches long, crown to rump, and weighs in at about 2 1/2 ounces (about the size of an apple). She’s busy moving amniotic fluid …
Amanda and I got to go to the doctor again today and got to hear Baby Agnew’s heartbeat again. That sucker was kicking just as fast as the last time! They found it a lot quicker than last time, and it was so neat because as she was searching, once she locked onto the sound, I recognized it so quickly. …
There is a lot going on with your baby this week. Your baby’s intestines are migrating from the umbilical cord into his or her abdomen. The villi are also forming in the intestines, and these help in peristaltic movements and digestion. The liver begins to secrete bile and the pancreas is even secreting insulin! All twenty teeth have formed and …
How your baby’s growing at week 12: The most dramatic development this week: Reflexes. Your baby’s fingers will soon begin to open and close, his toes will curl, his eye muscles will clench, and his mouth will make sucking movements. In fact, if you prod your abdomen, your baby will squirm in response, although you won’t be able to feel …
Tonight marked our end to the Matchmaker series at Fusion. Lil’ tear. I thought about taking all the single people in the room and arranging their marriages. Jeff and I have told many people that if they would just listen to us, we could tell them who they needed to date and marry, and they wouldn’t have to carry that …
Update on Baby Agnew as we stand on week 11 (my comments are in parentheses): Your baby’s organ systems are now functioning and he has a skeleton, nerves and blood circulation. Your baby’s tiny feet are fully formed and shaped and could stand on an adult’s fingernail (that is crazy – how amazing is God that something that small could …
We just heard our baby’s heartbeat! I am freaking out right now. I am overwhelmed at so many things, so this could go on for a while. I have warned you. We go to the doctor today and the nurse takes out this instrument right away and it has this loud microphone on it and all you can hear is …
Tomorrow night at Fusion, we are going to be continuing our Matchmaker series as we delve into the topic of how do you know when you find the “Right Person?” I said this last week, that behind salvation, who you spend the rest of your life with is the most important decision you will ever make. It effects everything in …
Here’s an update on Baby Agnew. Next Monday, we get to go hear the heartbeat! Your Baby: This week marks the end of the embryonic period and the placenta is developing as well. Your baby looks like a tiny human now and is approximately 13 – 17 mm or about 0.51 – 0.66 inches in length (about the size of …
That was the Big Idea this week at Fusion: God prefers if you stay single. We started our dating and relationship series at Fusion called “Matchmaker” and this shocking statement is what started it all out. 1 Cor. 7 records Paul dealing with an issue with some Christians who were struggling with the role of marriage and sexuality for Christian …
Here’s the week 8 update on lil’ Baby Agnew (God is so incredible how He does all this stuff!): Your Baby: Your baby has a face! Your baby’s features are becoming more obvious, as his lips, tongue and nostrils, as well as the buds for 20 baby teeth are already present. The back muscles are growing along the spinal column, …
So, if you haven’t heard, Amanda and I are expecting a little one. I’m overwhelmed. I am beyond joyous. I have been an emotional basket case crying at every little kid I see. In the middle of finding out this wonderful news, we are trying to move into the worship center, and I am having the hardest time focusing cause …
Tuesday was my three-year wedding anniversary. Man, we are getting old! This has been the third year though that we have not been with each other the whole day. Amanda was having to stay at USC to work on her Master’s, so we celebrated by me cooking hamburgers out in the rain on Monday. Such bliss. I have realized something …
So, I am not a father. I’ve been married for three years this coming June, but have not had the pleasure of being a father yet. I’m excited about it. But I’m also nervous about it. The role is a pretty pivotal one to play. But last night, I read the most beautiful fatherly advice that I have ever come …
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