Since I'm almost to 33 weeks I thought I'd share some interesting facts about Brandon's development this week.  This maybe to much information for some, so just skip this beginning part and start reading when the text turns blue!

Brandon is using his lungs to practice breathing by inhaling amniotic fluid. He is also drinking about a pint of amniotic fluid a day now and urinating the same amount (maybe that's why I'm in the bathroom every hour it seems!). The early baby fuzz to keep him warm, is disappearing now and being replaced by actual hair. Finger nails are now long enough to reach to the tip of the fingers or beyond and may need trimming as soon as they are born. They may scratch his face even before birth.

They say from this week on I should be gaining 1/2lb a week, but since I began my sugar-free diet I haven't been able to gain anything, which right now for Brandon's case it's okay, because he's a big boy already, lets think happy thoughts that on Fridays baby doctor appointment Brandon is back in the regular percentile of fetal growth(and not 3 weeks ahead like he has been for the past 12 weeks).   Just from the way I am physically feeling I feel like he hasn't grown much.  I also have no new stretch marks to show he's grown more!  I'll be happy with him being only 1-2 weeks ahead, it'll make me feel like this diet change has been worth something.

Take a look at this.  Gisele Bundchen is my new hero.

Supermodel and new mum Gisele Bundchen is such a fitness freak that she was practising kung fu and doing yoga even two weeks before she went into labour.

The Brazilian catwalk queen only gained 30 pounds (13.6 kilograms) during her pregnancy.

And the stunner easily managed to lose her baby weight because she didn't over indulge or give up her fitness regime.

"I did kung fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born, and yoga three days a week,” the Daily Star quoted her as telling the new issue of Vogue magazine.

"And I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals,” she added.

Bundchen and her American footballer husband Tom Brady welcomed their son in December (09).

Tomorrow I am going to try yoga again.  It's only been 10 days since the last class I went to.  AND only reason I stopped going was because I was getting self conscious because of my size and the stares, I'm the only pregnant lady and refuse to go to prenatal yoga and be surrounded by all pregnant women, plus I think in prenatal yoga the moves are not as fun and they don't get to the spots I want to stretch out, I like a little bit of a challenge, even if I am slightly handicap at the moment.