Week 16

The Baby:

*“It’s a great time to be a fetus.” This baby can be sucking its thumb, playing with the umbilical cord (oooh, fun!), which it can now grasp, or kicking at the amniotic sac. Wow I really hope the toys we buy seem awesome in comparison.
*Heart pumps 25 quarts of blood a day
*Bladder empties every 45 minutes
*Weighs 3 ounces, 4.5 inches in length = size of an avocado! (or… a small gerbil)
*Bones are hardening
*A big growth spurt is coming! In the next few weeks, baby will double in weight and add inches in length
*The baby would now fit in the palm of my hand (aw)
*No hair yet, but the pattern has developed on its head (hahaha, our baby will be bald for sure)
*Growing toenails!
*To me, the baby in this picture looks huge! It’s really that big inside me right now?! Like a small gerbil I guess… weird.

The Mom:

*I now have about a cup of amniotic fluid in my uterus (making my belly feel full and firm)
*Should be gaining a pound a week… due to extra blood and fluid volume, placenta, belly, boobs, etc. I have all of those things, but my scale and the scale at work both say I weight the same (which is actually 3 pounds LESS than before I got pregnant). Yes, it worries me. I eat, I swear!
*Top of my uterus is halfway between my pubic bone and my navel
*Round ligaments supporting the uterus are thickening and stretching (and I feel it – it doesn’t feel good)
*This week: start some yoga and think about making a birth plan
*Feeling the baby move: I really haven’t since those few times I mentioned. That also worries me. Or makes me think I’m crazy and I never felt it to begin with. My guides say I should start to really feel it soon.
*The “pregnancy glow” due to hormones and increased blood to the skin.. I don’t know, you tell me?
*Fingernails: grow so fast!
*Hair: seems like more is growing, but it’s really that less is falling out – thank you, hormones.
*No stretch marks!

The Dad:

*Looks great, doesn’t he?! Picture is from this last weekend at Joanna’s rehearsal dinner. Down something like 25 pounds! Plus… his arms are huge, mmmmm

Schedule: leaving in a couple hours for the LAKEHOUSE! I can’t wait to relax in the sun… I don’t get out much I may even attempt a swimsuit. Back on Sunday.
Next doctor appt: July 7^th at 3:45pm. Just the normal stuff.. blood tests, heartbeat…