MY LITTLE MUNCHKIN: WEEK 20

WEEK 20

Look at that belly and them chubby checks... lol

for the ones who keep asking for more belly pictures, well her you go! aka Gina

December 6th. Half way there!! 141 days to go. Baby Mark is approximately 8.5 inches long and weight in about 9 to 10 ounces. The baby can now feel the pitch of my voice. He can feel what mood i'm in when if i'm upset, he get upset too :(. At this stage, the outside world get though to my baby, and although it comes only as vague sounds and "taste" of food provided via the umbilical cord, that's quite a lot. The baby's skin is thickening, it begins to form into more layers. One of these layers is responsible for surface patterns on fingertips, palms and soles. The pattern, our fingerprints, are genetically determined. The brain is under intense development. my baby needs hundreds of millions of nerve cells for its muscular activities. This development of his nerve pathway means that it can already move consciously and coordinate movement such as sucking its thumb which i have seen him do on the ultrasound pictures, and drinking the amniotic fluid. To bad i have not felt any movement yet, I don't know maybe I have cause I hears its like bubbles and I just don't know it yet. This week was a bit lonely for me Toly went out of town with his brother Andre for 3 days. So I kept busy with doing nothing all week, it snowed on Monday but melted by Tuesday. Friday Toly finally came home, Saturday was the J Crew sale which is always fun. And today I woke up to about 4 inches of snow it was pretty nice. I got to build a snowman and play in the snow for a little while then church. I feel like this week has flew by, I am starting to have some back pain at times and my belly get achy and scratchy, I guess because my uterus is still stretching and trust me I see it, and my belly is getting so huge, no joke! Well I hope I start feeling the baby kick soon its going to be exciting when i do. Oh and so far its baby Mark for the name!!