Week 23 Update

April 21, 2008

Things are progressing nicely! Not much is new, but I have included a couple of pictures at the bottom.....not a huge difference, but it sure feels like it! Have been craving the strangest couple of things....cottage cheese, chicken salad...not together, at least. Of course Chinese and Mexican, but I don't think that is much different than before we got pregnant! And every once in a while a big fat bacon cheeseburger and onion rings (Jamie loves when I'm craving that!)!

Our next doctor's appt. is next Monday the 28th. We will have another ultrasound so there will be some pictures! I just got Jamie and I signed up for our childbirth classes that start in late May, that ought to be interesting.....considering Jamie is so not into medical stuff what so ever!

Here is what is going on this week:

She is more than 11 inches long and weighs just over a pound (about as much as a large mango). She may be able to feel your movements now, so put on some tunes and dance around the house. No matter what race your baby is, she looks red now due to blood vessels showing through his transparent skin. Her true skin tone will develop over the course of his first year. Blood vessels in her lungs are developing to prepare her for breathing, but complete lung development will take many more months. The lungs are the last organ to fully develop. She can swallow, but she normally won't pass his first stool (called meconium) until after birth. Loud noises heard often in utero — such as your dog barking or the roar of a vacuum cleaner — probably won't faze her when she hears them outside the womb. Thank God since Molly and Abbey love to bark at the mailman!

There she is!