17 Weeks

  

Sunday, May 9th – almost 17 weeks.

How Your Baby’s Growing (from Babycenter.com):

Your baby's skeleton is changing from soft cartilage to bone, and the umbilical cord — her lifeline to the placenta — is growing stronger and thicker. Your baby weighs 5 ounces now (about as much as a turnip), and she's around 5 inches long from head to bottom. She can move her joints, and her sweat glands are starting to develop.

How far along: 17 weeks

Pregnancy symptoms: diminished eyesight, expanding belly

Food Cravings: chocolate, French fries

Sleep: good!  I just need to make myself go to bed earlier.

Measurement: measuring tape’s at home; I’ll try to remember to do it later

Movement: I think I’m feeling more at this point than I was with Joanna but less than I was with Natalie.  I know with Joanna the placenta was in the way of my feeling her early on.  Maybe that’s the case now as well? 

Labor signs: none 

What I miss: I kind of miss being able to take meds or teas without checking to see if it’s okay while I’m pregnant.  I really don’t mind this, of course, but I do miss just being able to pop some pills.  :)  Of course, there have only been two weeks since June of 2006 that I didn’t have to make sure something was okay to take while pregnant or nursing!

What I’m looking forward to: The Ultrasound!!  I had it scheduled for the 24th, but decided to move it to the 25th to be safe.  I may still be in Oklahoma on the 24th (If I make it there), and I don’t want to worry about it!  I had to split my appointments, though.  The ultrasound is on the 25th and my baby checkup with my doctor is the 26th.

Milestone: I was just thinking the other day that it’s really been a while since I was nauseous!  (Now, I woke up this morning and threw up, but I think it was a fluke related to my bad headache.)  So anyway, I really feel like I’m way past all the first trimester ickyness.  It’s funny, I keep thinking this pregnancy is very “in-between” the other two.  Sicker than Natalie, not as sick as Joanna.  Sick longer than Natalie, not as long as Joanna, and so on.

Thoughts from the Girls: I posted this already, but it deserves a spot here as well.  My mom and Joanna were talking about the baby, I guess, and Joanna said it was going to be a boy and she was going to name him Paci.

Doctor’s visit: not this week