Moving Right along...

Wow...week 19! I'm almost half way there :) I am starting to embrace the weight gain...(had a hard time with that for awhile) and am loving that I'm not sick all of the time anymore. I also look for every opportunity to feel my little "Gracie" moving! So, what's Gracie doing these days? Here's an exerpt from parentsconnect.com:

Your Baby
This week your baby starts bulking up and packing on the grossly named "brown fat" he'll need to keep warm when he gets evicted from his comfortable uterine home. Other highlights this week:

Vernix, a milky white coating that protects your baby's skin, appears all over your baby's body to keep his skin from getting pickled in the amniotic fluid. Think of it as if your baby has been dipped in yogurt, like those delicious but fake-healthy yogurt-covered raisins and pretzels. Ooh, we feel another craving comin' on. ... Under the vernix, a fuzzy layer of hair called lanugo now covers baby's body. Don't worry, your Mini won't look like Cousin It when he's born. Most of the fuzz will fall off before baby makes his grand entrance.

Good news: Your baby's kidneys are fully functioning and producing urine this week. Bad news: That means there will be lots of diapers in your future. But so far you're safe—at the moment the pee just passes into the amniotic fluid.

He or she now weighs about 8½ ounces and measures 6 inches, as long as a turkey sub from Subway

19 Weeks Pregnant

And of course, the post wouldn't be complete with my belly pics! Pretty soon, I'm going to have to start taking these pictures with my shirt covering my bulging belly bean :)

Week 18 seems bigger to me than 19. I think it must be in what I am wearing at the time. I might have to start wearing the same clothes for each picture :)


Week 19


Week 18