YAYYYYYYYYYAAAYYYYYAYYYAYAYAY!! ICan'tBelieveI'mHalfWayToMeetingMySweetBabyAndrewICan'tEvenWait!!! :-D
Can I call a half-time though? It'd be great to get him off of this nerve he seems to be sitting on. No? Okay, then, onward we go!
He is somewhere around the size of a ... CANTALOUPE! Holy crap! Thank goodness he's not as round as one, just as long as one, from head to butt. He also should weigh around 10 & 1/2 oz, but I am going to guess that he's bigger than that. On all of my ultrasounds so far, he has weighed a bit more than average, so I think I'm safe to assume that he's a little bigger than average :-) However, I hope he doesn't get to be more than a little bigger than average...I may be miserable carrying a huge boy around! Lol!
What else? He is getting hair on his head starting this week. This is different than the hair -- "lanugo" -- that he has already developed on most of his body; this is real hair. I wonder what color it will be?! One really cute thing: "It will cover its ears with its hands if a loud sound is made near you, and it may even become startled and 'jump'." Haha! He can jump from loud noises! He is definitely moving a lot. I can feel him pretty often now, some days more than others though. He seems to move a lot when I sit or lay down and get settled in. I read that when you are moving around a lot, it lulls the baby to sleep, so that must be why he moves more when I'm still. He must be sleeping when I move, and wakes up when I get comfy. It doesn't really bother me though. He was moving a lot when I went to bed last night, but it didn't keep me awake.
***Disclaimer*** -- If you are too conservative/shy/sensitive/easily embarrassed, you may want to skip to the next paragraph -- Consider yourself warned. Also happening this week according to the What to Expect site: "Have you got male? If your fetus is a boy, his testicles have begun their descent this week, though they're still located in the abdomen, waiting for the scrotum to finish growing so they'll have a place to drop into in a few weeks." Pre-preggo, I may have been slightly embarrased to read this, but now I kind of think it's cute, haha!! My little Andrew is already getting ready to be a man! Aww!
Okay, back to more cute-baby topics. Actually, this may not be too cute, but the digestive system is making meconium now, and if you want to know what that is, go here. It's slightly gross, so I'll let you look for yourself if you want to know. What is more cute than that? Well, he should be developing his permanent teeth already, behind his baby teeth. We have already seen his baby teeth on the ultrasound pics, and I think it's pretty cool he's already getting his grownup teeth....wait, what? He's already growing up?! I haven't even gotten to hold him yet! Crazy....Anyway, one last thing: he should be starting to be able to differentiate between morning, afternoon and evening. I'm not really sure how that is, but I'm guessing it's because #1-he can see bright light so maybe that helps, or #2-he can tell my routines. I dunno for sure, that's just my guess.
Enough of that....on to ME! Lol. As I mentioned earlier, Andrew seems to be sitting/kicking/pressing on a nerve that is making my hip flexor area hurt. So, if I smell like IcyHot sometimes....sorry. Well, I'm not actually sorry, but I guess it just sounded good to say, haha.
Other than that little issue (which I really don't mind all that much, it's not too bad) I'm feeling great lately! I'm still tired of course, but no stomach issues, thank goodness!! I have had to take heartburn meds infrequently, but that hasn't gotten unbearable. I am still having food aversions, which is slightly annoying. I get really hungry, but I don't know what to eat because most things sound gross. It makes it a little difficult to get enough to eat, but I am doing okay. Speaking of things making it difficult to eat -- now that I'm at 20 weeks, my uterus is supposed to be right behind my belly button, and will grow toward my rib cage by about 1 cm per week....yikes! Talk about making it hard to eat...
Speaking of that, I did get a little heat from my (awesome) doc about not eating enough. I have only gained around 3 pounds so far, and she said I really need to eat more. (How fun is that -- the doc tells you to eat MORE, not less! Lol!) So I'm going to focus on high calorie (but still healthy...for the most part) foods, and try to get enough calories to gain at least 1 pound a week. That should put me back in the healthy range.
That's pretty much all I've got for this week :-) (Not that I need more, this post is long enough I think! Lol)
Happy 20-weeks-till-Baby Day!!
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