WEEK 21

WEEK 21

December 13.  133 days to go, yay!  Baby is about 8 to 9 inches long and weights about 13 oz, which is bigger than a can of coke.  Not too much moving around but i have to say i do feel a little, and I like it.  The babies head is growing, the diameter of the head has grown by 3 mm since last week.  The hair is growing, and so are the eyelashes.  The intestines have developed so that nutrition can be absorbed from the amniotic fluid which the baby swallows. Baby has almost half its birth length already but weights only 10% of what it will weight at birth. Wow, that kinda freaks me out a little.  On the other hand my waistline is definitely gone, it's hard to hide that I'm pregnant.  I've been putting on weight like crazy, I now weigh at 130 lbs.  I feel so huge its not even funny, I don't know what I'm going to do when i look huge too.  I have 4 more months to grow and i feel like I'm about to pop already.  My belly feels so hard and its weird seeing it all sticking out like crazy, I have never been that big in my life, I guess there is a 1st thing for everything.  My nurse came to see me this week, she is so great, I got some more free stuff from her. I love it when she comes over.  She checks up on me, checks my blood pressure, lets me know how much I weight, and bring me up to date on what's going on during my pregnancy.  But the most amazing thing happened this week, I was at home making Christmas sugar cookies and that's when i felt baby Mark KICK for the 1st time.  It was so amazing I ran to Toly and told him, he was so excited and I had tears in my eyes.  Its was such a surprise, I loved it.  I went to the gym this week with Alina and Yelena did the treadmill for a hour and watched the girls do their abs work out.  Alina and I went to Charlotte this week to see Oksana and do a little Christmas shopping, and I'm glad we did.  We stopped by the Motherhood store for me to try on some prego clothes and i ended up leaving the store wearing their clothes.  They had some really cute stuff and the girls just filled the dressing room of clothes for me to try on.  After trying on all the clothes I just did not want to put mine back on, so i took off the tags, paid for my stuff and wore them that day.  I'm so glad I got me some comfortable jeans and shirts that I can wear and not worry about stupid rubber bands lol... I finally found Toly's Christmas gift, no store in Asheville had it so its was a successful trip of shopping for me.  Later that week, me and Yelena made more cookies and had so much fun and make some pretty awesome cooking.  Not only did they taste good but they look good too.