30 weeks gestation

Today Emilia is 30 weeks today in gestational age (and I would have been 7 months pregnant if I were still pregnant).

Surely there have been a lot of developmental changes since she was first born. She uses her fingers a lot and she gazes at things. She makes a lot of licking and chewing movements. And, yeah, she fights off nurses' hands when they touch her. She surprisingly tolerates blood tests really well. She now weighs 1180g (2.6 lb). Certainly I would not have witnessed these changes if she were still inside me. It is amazing to see how a fetus-looking little baby gradually changes to look like and behave like one of us.

Also Emilia is one month old today. Now that she's a month old, the dietician said her milk (my breast milk) should be fortified and thus have higher calories. Last trimester is when babies start putting on fat. Right now Emilia does not have much fat. She has a lot of creases & skin folds especially around her bum and shoulders. I hope she will soon have a round plump bum like term babies. Right now it's bony, wrinkly and small.