Week 23

Waist Measurements: 39" at the belly button

Weigh in: 134lbs

Pregnancy Symptoms this Week:

• Very Hormonal
• Forgetfulness
• Insatiable Hunger
• nightly back ache
• still cant poop

Pregnancy Prep: Still just cleaning the office.

Dr Visits: None this week.

Belly Shot:

What the baby looks like this week: Is a tad bigger than last week! The pancreas is kicking into gear sometime around this week, and blood vessels continue to develop in the lungs. Lung development is a Big Thing right now, since babies born around 24 weeks gestation can often survive outside the womb. Her sense of movement well developed by now, your baby can feel you dance.

Length of Pregnancy Likelihood of Survival
23 weeks 17%
24 weeks  39%
25 weeks  50%
26 weeks  80%
27 weeks  90%
28-31 weeks  90-95%
32-33 weeks  95%
34+ weeks Almost as likely as a full-term baby
Sources: March of Dimes, Quint Boenker Preemie Survival Foundation

22 Weeks

Waist Measurements: 38" at the belly button

Weigh in: 131lbs.

Pregnancy Symptoms this Week:

• Forgetfulness
• Back ache
• cant poop

Pregnancy Prep: We started looking at strollers, and cleaning out the office. Once my sisters baby shower is over I can start sewing for Ethan.

Dr Visits: None this week

Belly Shot:

What the baby looks like this week: Is about 11 inches long, which is just about one inch shorter than your average 12-inch ruler. Has likely crossed the one-pound mark in weight. Is getting more defined facial features every day, and already looks unmistakably like himself or herself on a 3D ultrasound. Her lips, eyelids, and eyebrows are becoming more distinct, and she's even developing tiny tooth buds beneath her gums. Her eyes have formed, but her irises (the colored part of the eye) still lack pigment.

21 Weeks

Waist Measurements: 38" at the belly button

Weigh in: 130lbs according to the wii.

Pregnancy Symptoms this Week:

• Heartburn
• back spasm
• cant poop

Pregnancy Prep: Finally started paining the furniture, now we just meed to clear out the room.

Dr Visits: I had an Ultrasound & a Dr. appointment, everything looks good, he is one active little boy!

Belly Shot:

What the baby looks like this week: Is about 10 1/2 inches long, head to toe. He is like, kicking for serious now.

Week 20 Half way there!!!

Waist Measurements: 37" at the belly button

Weigh in: 125lbs

Pregnancy Symptoms this Week:

• slight heartburn
• pregnancy insomnia

Pregnancy first this week: Definitely feeling kicks now. :)

Pregnancy Prep: Bought some clearance halloween stuff for next year

Dr Visits: Nope

Belly Shot: 

What the baby looks like this week: From now on he will be measured head-to-toe, instead of the head-to-rump measurements so that puts him at 10 1/2 ounces now and about 6 1/2 inches long — the length of a banana. His heartbeat can be heard with just a regular old stethoscope now and not just the fancy doppler. He is swallowing and practicing other digestive skills, and can now produce meconium, which is essentially prenatal poop that sits in the bowels during pregnancy. 

Week 19

Waist Measurements: 37" at the belly button

Weigh in: 125lbs

Pregnancy Symptoms this Week:

• itchy
• leg cramps
• upset tummy
• Slight uncomfortableness sleeping

Pregnancy first this week: Its kinds uncomfortable to sleep which i did not have last time. I can feel my belly much more and I feel like I'm squishing it.

My Pregnancy Brain: This time around its taking longer to feel "real" probable cause I'm so busy with Katelyn.

Pregnancy Prep: We picked a theme for the nursery and bought a pillow.

Dr Visits: None this week.

Belly Shot:

What the baby looks like this week: He is about 8 1/2 ounces and measures 6 inches, head to bottom. His arms and legs are in the right proportions to each other and the rest of her body now. He is now fully assembled; just needs some fattening up and lengthening out. His brain is designating specialized areas for smell, taste, hearing, vision, and touch. Some research suggests that he may be able to hear our voice now, so looks like its time to start reading aloud, talking to him, and singing to him. Oh yeah!His kidneys continue to make urine and the hair on her scalp is sprouting.

Week 18

Waist Measurements: 37.5" at the belly button

Weigh in: no weigh in this week. My grandma didn't have a scale

Pregnancy Symptoms this Week:

• Still really itchy
• Very Emotional

Dr Visits: None this week.

Belly Shot:

What the baby looks like this week: Is about the size of a baked potato, Head to rump, about 5 1/2 inches long and he weighs almost 7 ounces. Has actual cute little ears and working ear bones and can hear sounds through the amniotic fluid, similar to how things sound to you underwater.

Oh Yeah! A protective covering of myelin is beginning to form around her nerves.

Molar #4 is out

Week 17.... It's a BOY

Waist Measurements: 36" at the belly button 

Weigh in: 124lbs

Pregnancy Symptoms this Week:

• Moody
• Very Emotional
• Itchy rash, might be PUPPPS
• Slight, slight heartburn
• Lower back achiness

Pregnancy first this week: Researching this PUPPS thing, we'll see if it really is that as I right this I don't feel itchy or feel the rash, but earlier this week it was pretty bad.

My Pregnancy Brain: Finding out that we are having a boy really threw mw off, I knew it was a definite possibility but I honestly didn't think it would happen. I am so excited and I cant wait to meet Ethan.

Belly Shot:

What the baby looks like this week: His skeleton is changing from soft cartilage to bone. He weighs about 5 ounces now and he's around 5 inches long from head to bottom. He can move his joints, and his sweat glands are starting to develop.

Walking

Week 16

Waist Measurements: 36" at the belly button

Weigh in: 122lbs

Pregnancy Symptoms this Week:

• Moody
• Emotional
• Flutters
• itchy rash

Pregnancy first this week: I have a weird rash on my torso, not sure what it is from but I called the dr and they didn't seem too worried, just said to take some benadryl if I needed it. So far I haven't, I can take the itchiness for now.

My Pregnancy Brain: My belly has started popping out so it feels a more real, I'm also starting to feel some flutters.

Pregnancy Prep: I continued sanding the furniture, It might be why I'm itchy so not Paul wont let me finish it. ahh. I also when shopping with my mom for some baby clothes.

Dr Visits: Just one noting exciting, just the usuall pee in a cup take BP and hear baby. Next month I get the ultrasound.

Belly Shot: 

What the baby looks like this week: she is a little over four inches long and weighs a little over 2.5 ounces. Has fingernails and toenails, and there's a lot happening inside as well. Her heart is now pumping about 25 quarts of blood each day, and this amount will continue to increase as she continues develop.

Molar #2 has made it debut

Week 15

Waist Measurements: 35" at belly button

Weigh in: 122lbs

Pregnancy Symptoms this Week:

• Moody
• Emotional

Pregnancy first this week:

My Pregnancy Brain: 

Pregnancy Prep:

Dr Visits: none

Belly Shot:

What the baby looks like this week: Is as big as a beefsteak tomato! Measures about 4 Inches and weights about 2 1/2 ounces. S/he has started "breathing" amniotic fluid in through its nose and respiratory tract, giving those lungs some very early practice for the real thing. Can sense light and pressure from outside of the womb, yet another way to start annoying our child, and lastly the legs are growing longer than the arms now, and can move all joints and limbs.

She took 2 steps

We have a Molar!

Picture to follow

Week 14

Waist Measurements: 35" at belly button

Weigh In: 120lbs

Pregnancy Symptoms this:

• Headache
• Still sick

Pregnancy first this week: 

My Pregnancy Brain: 

Pregnancy Prep: Started sanding the bedroom set.

Dr Visits: Nope

Belly Shot:

What the baby looks like this week: Is about the size of a peach. From head to bottom measure about 3 1/2 inches. Has a strong, whoosh-whooshy heartbeat See below :). Our baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his thumb! The kidneys are producing urine, which s/he releases into the amniotic fluid around him. The liver starts making bile this week and the spleen starts helping in the production of red blood cells.