How Your Baby's Growing:
Your baby's sensory development is exploding! Her brain is designating specialized areas for smell, taste, hearing, vision, and touch. Some research suggests that she may be able to hear your voice now, so don't be shy about reading aloud, talking to her or singing a happy tune if the mood strikes you.
Your baby weighs about 8 1/2 ounces and measures 6 inches head to bottom, about the size of a large tomato. Her arms and legs are in the right proportions to each other and the rest of her body now. Her kidneys continue to make urine and the hair on her scalp is sprouting. A waxy protective coating called the vernix caseosa is forming on her skin to prevent it from pickling in the amniotic fluid.
~ We missed posting about week 18 because we were out of town! But these past two weeks have been wonderfully easy. I'm sleeping well, eating well and some of those crazy chocolate cravings have finally subsided. I'm not having any heart burn and my energy is returning... and gas, my constant companion, is going away too.
The only thing to complain about is leg cramps- at least every other night, my right leg will cramp so painfully that I accidentally wake up Scott, and then like clock work the left leg feels left out so it cramps, too! The next day I always feel like I've gone crazy on a stair master.
Up until last week I was 'behind' on my weight gain. We spent 7 days in a huge city (population 12 million) and every day we were enjoying Subway, Peter's Tex Mex, Grandma's, The Bookworm, and of course STARBUCKS. When we go to Subway, I always order a foot long and give half to Scott. But last week, every time I'd finish my own 6 inch, I'd start working on the other half. Scott was lucky if he ever got a bite. Not only that, but I would occasionally beg for another 6 inch; thankfully Scott would say "woman, please."
At Peter's Tex Mex and the Book Worm I almost always ordered one of their honking huge salads. We never get salad here without lots of imported things, and even then it's not that great- so I maxed out on salads and now I'm a little sick of them. :-) But I'm pretty sure I'll want another one when we go back.
I think I've felt the baby moving around, but since it feels so much like gas I can't say for sure... maybe week 20 I'll have something more to write about!!
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for your leg cramps, stretch your legs before bed. point your toes and hold, then the opposite- point them back toward you (with legs straight) and hold them tight. eat bananas, too. drinking plenty of water should help tremendously!
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