You're getting all the oxygen that you need. That's the good news that the books report, and they report it because they also say that chances are good that your mother is feeling a bit short of breath after only a bit of exertion. And they're right. Here we are, with only about two more months to go, and to tell you the truth, you're getting a bit heavy for her. For instance, it's getting hard for her to bend over to pick things up. But you don't have to worry since (so the books tell us) you're getting all the oxygen you need.

I've told you a number of times already that you're pretty active in there, but this week you seem to have set a record for moving around. There were a few days during this week when you started swimming around and didn't seem to want to stop, making your mother's stomach flutter all over - and we were always a bit behind you, each time watching the spot where you'd just struck but not knowing where your next attack would be. It was sort of like trying to catch a butterfly that always succeeds in fluttering off to a new spot just when you come down with the net. Almost - except that you were one heavy butterfly! Your mother survived the assaults, but I should admit that you really left her a bit short of breath.

I haven't told you how beautiful your mother looks during her pregnancy. I suppose that you can take some credit for that, though perhaps it's my fault as well. Though she complains that you're heavy and that it's hard to find a comfortable position to sit in or lay down in (boy! does she hog the bed) pregnancy most definitely becomes her.