17 Weeks

16 weeks

I thought this was a cool video that sums up the next few weeks of the baby's development, so I decided to share it.

And then of course I need to post the weekly produce comparison.  Apparently baby is now the size of an avocado.  This avocado is rather unripe and mis-shapen, but most of the other pictures of avocados I found were sliced in half and I prefer thinking of baby in whole terms :)

Oh and I almost forgot to mention, I felt the baby moving the other day!  It was as I was slouched over at the computer and it felt like flutters and swishing... kind of hard to explain. But so cool.  Then I stayed in that position for another hour trying to feel it again but it didn't happen haha.  Since then I've felt the little guy squirming every once in a while.  I can't wait until a few weeks from now when Hunter will be able to feel it too.

No new cravings, still clinging to my chocolate milk and oranges :) I'll post a new bump picture as soon as I can get Hunter to take one with me, because there isn't enough of him on this page!

15 weeks and growing!

Cravings this week... Chicken and chocolate milk! Mm mm can't get enough of it.  Unfortunately I have that really annoying pregnancy symptom where you get a horrible taste in your mouth, especially after eating.  But I've got a good routine going of 'eat, chew gum, eat, chew gum, repeat..."

We technically could find out the gender now but we're going to hold off, hopefully until the very end.  I'm almost 100% sure it's a girl though- I've just got a feeling.  I've heard such 'feelings' can be wrong, and often are, but I'll believe it when I see it!

Baby is approximately the size of an apple right now.  And below is a picture of what he/she looks like this week.  Since we probably aren't having any more ultrasounds unless absolutely necessary, I'm grateful we've got the internet to allow us to see how the little apple is growing and changing each week.

Heartbeat

Here's a video of the first time we heard our baby's heartbeat, at about 10 weeks gestation (and on January 1st- our anniversary!).  My midwife was so surprised by how quickly and easily she found the heartbeat (usually wouldn't be so easy for another few weeks at least), that she thought I was actually a whole month further along!  We found out a couple days later at our first ultrasound that I really was only about 10 and a half weeks pregnant, but the way my uterus was angled made it unusually easy to hear the heartbeat.

There is nothing sweeter to me than the sound of our baby's heartbeat <3