Week 17

Your baby is about 5 inches by week 17 and weights almost 4 ounces. If you were to hold your baby at 17 weeks she would fit snugly in the palm of your hand.

Your baby is now very mobile, moving her joints her and there and will continue to do so from now on. The cartilage making up the skeleton in the baby’s body is starting to transform into bone. At 17 weeks she should be hearing things (mommy says OH no!) She’s starting to put on layers of fat.

You may be feeling her move intermittently this week and as the pregnancy progresses you’ll likely start feeling more and more movement.

We’ll I’ve felt a tiny bit of movement in the last 3 days – it seemed to be after I ate and when I was in a certain position but I felt a flutter and pop that I hadn’t ever felt before. Overall feeling good, allergies have been wicked and I am not sure if it’s all allergies or pregnancy hormones - most likely a combination of both. I do know I’ve had some scary bad dreams but I guess that is normal – with getting up 5 or 6 times to pee you have different REM sleep– and the hormones apparently can make your dreams be crazy. I’m just happy when I don’t dream or don't remember the dreams, like the last two nights – I’ll get up a 100 times to pee over a really bad dream.


Slight pooch that we can feel that is harder or more plump. We had a discussion about what it felt like - and decided its like a melon covered in a pillow. I doubt that any stranger would think I was pregnant just by looking at me – just too fat.

I’ve had issues with my blood pressure already (well it started out slightly borderline) so they have me on meds for that to protect my kidneys and obviously keep it down, I had a jump in pressures so they increased my dose which is making me tired. This week I went off my oral meds for diabetes – and wow did my blood sugar numbers jump up. Now I am just trying to get a handle on the blood sugar and still eat health foods. So here comes all the wonderful insulin – apparently by the end of the pregnancy (thank you hormones again) I will be 3 times as resistant to insulin as when I started…which means I will be on record amounts. I already take way more than the normal person so I can’t even imagine. I may not even be able to use the pump through the whole thing.

But insulin doesn’t pass the placenta and the oral meds do and without any good studies it’s not worth taking the chance it would hurt the baby.

Weight gain - I've gained between 6-9 lbs - it goes up and down depending on the day. At the doctors office I've been the same for the last three weeks but I think I will see a jump next week. Still not to bad - but I think it will get harder to not gain too much with all the insulin.

So overall doing well. It’s finally setting in that we have a daughter and I think we are both excited about that. I just can’t wait to meet her and see what she looks like! Dan, I hope!!