week 20

cantaloupe baby!

average size: 6.5 inches, 10.6 oz.

what's going on with baby: "Baby's digestive system is busy creating meconium (a tarry black substance made of swallowed amniotic fluid, digestive secretion and dead cells), which will fill the first diaper after birth. And, speaking of the diaper situation... baby's genitals are now fully formed!"

they sure are! we are having a GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so amazing!!!! today was seriously SO awesome. the technician goes over EVERYTHING when doing the ultrasound and it was so cool to see everything and hear what she was looking at! she measured her head, stomach, legs, arms, face, heart, kidneys...everything! and she said she is healthy in every way! wonderful news to hear :) 

our little girl was wiggling around and had her hands over her face practically the whole time! lol! sorry baby girl! we wanna see you!!! when the tech had to get a good shot of her face, she wasn't cooperating, and kept her hands over her face, so the tech pressed a little harder on my tummy to try to get her to move her hands/arms and she PUNCHED BACK at the technician!!! hahahahaha! but finally the tech was able to see (she was checking the face for things like a cleft lip) and everything looked good there too :) so happy!!! the tech also said "LONG LEGS!" when she measured them! and said she is overall 8.5"-9" from crown of the head to toes. here are a few more pics from the appointment:

arms/hands (hard to see the hands) with a "thumbs up" on the right hahaha 

feet! the photo on the right is easier to see than on the left 

another profile shot, but you cant see her face. she is facing down (you can see her head on the left, and her spine at the top)

face shot (right in the middle looking directly at the camera) where she...looks like a skeleton hahahaha 

we are so in love with her already!!! can't wait to meet her!

after my ultrasound, we had another appointment with my midwife because she likes to just meet up afterwards and go over things with us. since everything was healthy, it was a short meeting! but still nice to chat about what we saw. she also took the doppler out to listen to the heartbeat, but our little girl was hiding from it! it took her a long time to find it, and then once she did, it was a strong heartbeat, but it slowly got fainter sounding because baby was moving away from it hahaha...okay! sorry babe! enough intrusion for one day, right??? :)

one thing they did mention is that i have slight placenta previa which is when the placenta grows on the bottom part of the uterus, and *could* cover up the cervix (AKA: the way OUT for baby lol), but! this is a VERY common thing, and they said 90% of the time, the placenta moves up and out of the way by the time baby is ready to come out, so that's good! they like it to be at least 25mm away from the cervix and right now mine is at 15mm, so it's not covering it up, which is good, and they said it will probably move up and away like 90% of them do. if it doesn't move, then it just means a c-section has to happen, but i'd like to not have that if possible, of course! they scheduled another ultrasound for us to go to at 28 weeks (april 17th) to check up on its progress. hopefully it will have made progress away from the cervix. if not, they will check it again 4 weeks later. but we get to see our little girl again in 8 weeks, so that's pretty cool too!

so that was our wonderful and exciting visit! we are both over the MOON excited!!!! it feels more real when we can now say "she" or "her"! now i'm just anxious to hold her!!! oh! and here is the 20 week bump pic that i took:

halfway there!!!! cannot believe how fast this is going!