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!!

Well its not Father's Day

It seemed like a good idea in concept - give the grandpa's a shirt for Father's Day saying "Grandpa to a new baby XXX". Fun and surprise, right? Because everyone would be together and find out at once.

But we couldn't wait to tell our families... and I stink at keeping a secret and they really wanted to know what we are having. So now everyone gets to know....


We are having a baby GIRL!!!

We seem to be missing males in the next generation of our family - this will be the 4th girl on Dan's side and 2nd on mine but we are super excited. We just went around saying - a girl - a daughter - wow. Well I did and Dan had to listen to it!

WOOO HOOO

All the tests came back normal!!! And we are having a BABY!!

15 weeks 4 days - Amnio Day

#2 picture is my favorite! You can totally see the profile and all I can do is imagine what it will look like in person! It's cute already. Baby is looking very baby like these days although Dan is still calling it gummy bear. Measuring 16 weeks exactly so we are looking good growth wise.

The amnio was tolerable - and worth it for the ultrasound before hand! Dan's hand survived the procedure and I don't seem to be having any side affects (knock on wood). We should have results in a few weeks at the most. No gender sighting... baby was laying side to side as you can see from picture #1.

Whats happening at 15 weeks

• Baby is now over 4 inches (10cm) long
  and weighs about 2.5 ounces (75 grams).
  
• He or she can move its arms and make a fist.
  
• Fingernails and toenails are present.
  
• Baby's skin is still very thin.

Your baby's legs have grown longer than the arms and the body is now longer than the head. The bone and marrow that make up your baby's skeletal system are continuing to develop this week. The bones and muscles are continuing to grow. You may begin to feel some fluttering movements as baby kicks, twists and turns; but don't panic if you don't feel movement yet. Their ears are nearly in position, and the three tiny bones in his middle ear have begun to harden. By the end of the week, the roof of your baby's mouth will be completely formed. The fetus has an adults taste buds and may be able to savor the mother's meals. The baby's thin skin is covered with ultra fine, downy hair that usually disappears before birth.The fetal crown to rump length by this week of pregnancy is 4 to 4.5 inches (100 to 115mm). The fetus weighs about 2.5 ounces (75g). It's close to the size of a softball.

14 week appt

Nothing exciting - just a quick ultrasound to get the heartbeat and I do mean quick, it took me longer to wipe the stuff off my tummy than the whole ultrasound. Baby was visibly bigger - was over on my right side and head down so all I could see for two seconds was little legs moving around and then the heart beating. 156 bpm.

Quick visit with the doctor to answer some questions and that was that. Well except for the waiting - that was an hour :) So far so good.

I did find out when to expect ultrasounds (that are a little more meaningful) - one more heartbeat next time and then they move to the Doppler. After that there should be good ultrasounds with pictures at 18-20-28 weeks and then monthly after that. Cool :)