I can't even begin to tell you how excited Nathan and I are about tomorrow's ultrasound. We truly have no clue and both keep changing our minds as to if we are having a boy or a girl. Seems whatever one of us thinks the other thinks the opposite. I always thought I would favor one gender over another based on little girl fantasies, but truly I could care less! I am just so overjoyed that this baby is doing so well! Tomorrow at 3:20 I have my OB check up - check the hearbeat for the baby and my vitals and such. They are pretty simple appts. Then the BIG one at 5:00. Hopefully Baby cooperates this time. We will be having much discussion about it leading up to the appt. :-)
I am feeling really good - just the sciatica pain, but Nathan helps me get up off the couch or wherever so that helps as it is when it hurts the worst for me. But all in all - LIFE IS GOOD!!!!
Here is the baby update:
Your baby weighs about 10 1/2 ounces now. She's also around 6 1/2 inches long from head to bottom, and about 10 inches from head to heel - the length of a banana. (Can you believe the baby is pretty much half as long as it will be when we deliever?!? That is amazing to me. Clearly it needs to fatten up some, but that happens later!) (For the first 20 weeks, we use measurements taken from the top of the baby's head to her bottom — known as the "crown to rump" measurement. After that, we use measurements from head to toe. This is because a baby's legs are curled up against her torso during the first half of pregnancy and are very hard to measure.)
A greasy white substance called vernix caseosa coats her entire body to protect her skin during its long submersion in amniotic fluid. (This slick coating also eases the journey down the birth canal.) (Yummy!)
Your baby is swallowing more, which is good practice for her digestive system. She's also producing meconium, a black, sticky substance that's the result of cell loss, digestive secretion, and swallowed amniotic fluid. This meconium will accumulate in her bowels, and you'll see it in her first messy diaper (although a few babies pass it in utero or during delivery). (That is such an utterly lovely thought.... *gag*! I think Daddy will need to change that first diaper. I know my Daddy had to change my first diaper... I think it is a rite of passage.... at least that is what I'm telling myself.)
Oh and the mommy update I get says that the top of my uterus is at my belly button. Looks like baby wolfe is still well protected by my pooch (Bertha)... I think the roundness that is above my belly button are my insides moving up. Such a wonderful though, huh?
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