Well I had hoped to make these updates more frequent but we have been so extremely busy! We've done a lot of visiting and enjoyed it all, but I'm actually looking forward to a weekend home this weekend.
So, we are now at 20 weeks… halfway… woohoo!! Exciting and scary all at the same time. My figure is starting to reflect the fact that I have a foot-long baby housed inside my tummy. I'm starting to get to feel the tiny kicks and rolls too, which is just too cool! I'm sure in about 3 months I'll be asking for less kicks to the ribs but I welcome them all right now. It's especially neat to be sitting at my desk at work and feel a little tiny kick in the abdomen…just enough to remind me of what is going on and remind me that I'm not alone at all :)
This week in Baby-ville
Many of your baby's senses are developing as specialized areas in the brain are geing designated for smell, taste, hearing, vision and touch. Millions of motor neurons are continuing to develop in your baby's brain allowing more controlled and conscious movement. This week your baby's skin will become covered with a waxy-like substance called vernix which will protect her skin from becoming scratched or chapped. Your baby is also starting to produce meconium, the result of digestion, which will accumulate in her bowels and eventually pass during delivery of her first diaper.
Baby size: 6.5 inches (head to bottom, so about a foot long total length), 10.6 oz (over half a pound!)
This week in Mama-ville
I've gained about 10 pounds and am attaining a little bit of a belly. Finally I'm looking more pregnant and less like I stopped working out!
For those curious, here's a snapshot of my growing self over the last month or so.
15 wks 5 days (June 10)
17 wks 2 days
Baby's first blueberry picking experience: 18 wks 5 days
19 wks 2 days (July 5)
Lastly, we had another appointment last week. Everything is looking great and we get to start thinking about birthing classes and hospital tours. And two days ago we got another ultrasound. Being "old" like I am we got the extended version and got to see lots and lots of baby's heart beating and brain scans and such. It is really cool that we can already see the chambers of the heart and watch the blood flow in and out!! And there at the end of the 15 minute ultrasound, we found out what everyone's been asking….what's the flavor.
Well, it’s a …… GIRL!!!
(And no, we don't have a name picked out)
We'll have to scan in some of the pictures and I'll show them in a later post, but I'll just add that it is really cool getting to see a mini human moving around inside of me up on a big screen!
That's about all the baby updates for now. If I get time maybe I'll post more on other stuff going on in our lives. Like I said, we've been staying quite busy :)
Angela
