Congratulations! You are halfway through your pregnancy, 20 weeks marks the midpoint. Remember, pregnancy is counted as 40 weeks from the beginning of your last period if you go full term. You are 20 weeks pregnant. (fetal age 18 weeks)
* Baby now weighes about 11 ounces and is roughly 7 inches long.
* Baby is 17cm long crown to rump, and weighs about 310 grams.
* The baby can hear and recognize the mother’s voice.
* The mother will probably start feeling the first fetal movements.
* The toenails and fingernails are growing. * The growth of hair on the rest of the body has started.
* The skin is getting thicker. * The heart can now be heard with a stethoscope.Your baby may react to loud sounds. Baby can actually hear noises outside of the womb. Familiar voices, music, and sounds that baby becomes accustomed to during their development stages often are calming after birth. This is an important time for sensory development since nerve cells serving each of the senses; taste, smell, hearing, sight, and touch are now developing into their specialized area of the brain.
Your baby now weighes about 11 ounces and at roughly 7 inches long they are filling up more and more of the womb. Though still small and fragile, the baby is growing rapidly and could possibly survive if born at this stage.
Note: Babies are measured from the crown (or top) of the head to the rump (or bottom) until about 20 weeks. After that, they are measured from head to heel. This is because a baby’s legs are curled up against the torso during the first half of pregnancy and very hard to measure.
You already knew this, but it’s true. I totally did blow NaBloPoMo. Right out my big stinky blow hole. But you know what? I still did pretty good. I posted 26 days out of 30. That’s not nothing, you feel me? So way to go me! My prize? Well if I remember I will buy myself a Milky Way next time I go to the store. As Mr. Burns would say… Exxcellent. *rubs hands together*
So! Remember my wishlist post where I didn’t really know what I wanted this year? I decided! A tivo. And I convinced Jeff that it would make an excellent from-both-of-us-to-both-of-us gift! So that bad boy has been ordered. And I am super excited! *dances in a circle* We are getting a tivo! We are getting a tivo! I also still want an ice cream maker though… but I’ve been holding that hope for about a year now anyway. What’s another year?
You are 19 weeks pregnant. (fetal age 17 weeks)
- Fetus is around 6.5 inches (17cm) and 9 ounces (250gm).
- Your placenta continues to grow and nourish the baby.
- Features of your baby’s heart, should be visible during an ultrasound.
- Your baby’s genitals are distinct and recognizable.
- Scalp hair has sprouted and continues to grow.
If baby is female the uterus starts to develop, the vagina, uterus, and fallopian tubes are in place. Females have a limited supply of eggs in their lifetime. At this point your daughter will have 6 million eggs. This amount decreases to approximately one million by birth. If it’s a boy, the genitals are distinct and recognizable. Even if the sex looks obvious, ultrasound operators have been known to make mistakes.
Baby’s legs are reaching their relative size and with the increase muscle development occurring as well, you will start feeling much more than tiny flutter kicks soon. If you have not felt movement yet, you will soon. Your baby will increase its weight by more than 15 times between now and delivery.
Your baby’s size is around 6.5 inches (17cm) and 9 ounces (250gm).
Happy thanksgiving everyone! I hope you all eat your weight in turkey and all the trimmings! We are going out to a thanksgiving buffet today with my parents and my step-brother. We’ve never done an “out” thanksgiving before… I hope it rocks! My mom cooked a turkey yesterday anyway so she could give us all some for sandwiches. (My mom is awesome, in case you hadn’t picked up on that already.) I am having a hard time waiting for 1:00 to roll around! I just cooked some “brown and serve” rolls, I love rolls so I wanted some at home. I figured eating a couple would hold me over til dinnertime… but instead it has kind of left my stomach going “yeah? Where’s the rest!!” Soon, grasshoppa.
And yeah, yeah. I missed a day. I actually thought of it at about 10:30 last night, but I was already all snuggled up and warm in bed. I wasn’t getting back up, no way, no how. Sorry interwebs! I’m sure you forgive me. 
Yesterday we went and dropped off a ton of stuff at a place that takes old computers and electronics. He might refurbish *some* of what we dropped off, but mostly it will get recycled. Then we met Jeff’s dad at Applebee’s. We didn’t know the Applebee’s part until after we’d already eaten lunch, so we got desserts. Mmm. THEN we went to the mall to see A Christmas Carol. We had some time to kill before the show though, so I got those things I wanted to buy at Walmart a couple weeks ago (I don’t think I mentioned that I didn’t have any luck at Walmart that day, and it just left me frustrated and grumpy) – at JC Penney. A little more expensive there, but at least everything was on sale what with the time of year. And, also, they actually had things that worked. We also stopped in the Hallmark store and I got this ornament:
It’s adorable right? I thought it didn’t have a date on it when we picked it, but the baby’s hat actually says 2009. I decided I can just paint right over that pretty easily with a tiny bit of yellow paint though. Problem solved.
I just ate dinner (nothing special, just a chicken patty and some seasoned spiral fries) and I can hardly move now. So Full! And speaking of full, Thanksgiving is sneaking right up on us! I have the next five days off work and am super excited about that. On Thanksgiving my mom and Dave are taking us out to a Thanksgiving buffet. But my mom is still cooking a turkey tomorrow so that we can all have some leftovers for sandwiches… That really threw me for a loop when she said she was cooking a turkey anyway. I just couldn’t figure out what she was talking about… “what do you mean, I thought we were supposed to meet you at the restaurant?” D’oh! I’m a genius.
I just entered Dale in a doggy contest… If you are so inclined you can vote for him at the link below! Voting ends December 15th. If you vote for him, also leave a comment here so we can thank you properly! The prizes are here, and if Dale wins *he will choose one commenter at random and share the wealth! What that means depends on the prize level of course, so cross your fingers for grand prize!
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*suggestions as to how a dog can choose a winner more than welcome. Can a dog choose a name out of a hat? Without rendering it illegible if he’s recently turned into a very drooly dog…?
This post is coming to you from my laptop… which I very rarely use anymore. But I got on here to put some older photos of Dale and Chewy onto our flash drive, so I could take them over to the desktop and work on that picaboo book I won. But I haven’t made it that far yet. I did go through and put the pictures on the drive though, so there’s that. Here’s a couple of them:
You are 18 weeks pregnant. (fetal age 16 weeks)
- The fetus is now 6 inches long and weighs 7 ounces.
- The fetus measures about 15cm and weighs almost 200 grams.
- They can hear sounds and may be startled by loud noises.
- Recognizable active and rest periods.
- The skin is building a protective wax layer (vernix).
Vernix (a white cheese like protective material) forms on baby’s skin with the lanugo, a soft lightly pigmented hair covering the body and limbs, both help to protect your baby’s skin during the months in water. Your baby may hear your heart beating, your stomach rumbling or blood moving through the umbilical cord. He or she may even be startled by loud noises.
Tiny air sacs called alveoli begin to form in lungs and the vocal chords are formed. Baby goes through the motions of crying but without air doesn’t make a sound; yet.
Your baby may have the same awake and sleep patterns of a newborn. Baby will have a favorite position for sleep and recognizable active and rest periods.
Your baby measures about 6 inches (15cm) crown to rump and weighs about 7 ounces (200gm).
From: http://www.baby2see.com/development/week18.html
Happy Saturday! I hope you all got to nap as much as I did today… heh
Because I no can has anything to write tonight… some lolcats! I save the best ones to a folder on my computer and our screensaver is set to rotate through them. It’s pretty much my most brilliant moment ever.
I think I do one of these posts every year. This one can’t be any different! Except… I don’t really know what I want for Christmas. Everything I have thought of so far I have mentioned to Jeff as something we could get for both of us and save for Christmas – and he says eh let’s just get it for now. Like the new desk chair. And the new comforter. And that digital camcorder. Yeah.
I guess I would like a printer. Nothing fancy, we have purchased somewhat fancy in the past and when it dies and customer service are asses about it it just pisses you off more. So something cheap that when it croaks I can say “eh, well. You get what you pay for.” Actually I think my mom might have one that came with her new computer that she’d probably give me. Maybe I should ask her and if she doesn’t want it – have her wrap it up.
Everything else I think of is pretty boring! Like, this shelf. I need that shelf. Maybe two or three of it. With some totes maybe to put things in and then on that shelf. Totally boring.
I also need a couple of these blackout curtains. But who the hell wants to ask for curtains for Christmas?! I need some inspiration!
Usually I ask for pajama pants and snowmen. But… I have a million snowmen and pajama pants now. I’ll probably still get a couple of each, and that’s fine. But I shouldn’t ask for more or I will be buried beneath them all!
Wait a minute. I know what I want! I want an ice cream maker. Like maybe this one. And ingredients! Someone tell my husband! STAT!
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