22 Weeks

Hello Outtie! I've never seen you before! Nice to meet you; just promise to go back to the way you used to be after Miss Newton has arrived. Deal? What a new way to start week 22. The second trimester has been nothing but growth! Makes me happy! I feel the baby moving and squirming more and more. She really likes to dance at night when I lay down for bed. It's soothing and I just lay and rub her....

She continues to grow so I continue to eat. This past week we got to spend a long weekend at the beach and I got my fill of Tortuga's Lie Nachos and Plaza Azteca's enchiladas. One day I had a chocolate milkshake and a glazed donut only hours apart....

Papaya: During month 5, the average fetus measures almost 12 inches and weighs anywhere from 13 to 20 ounces. During my sonogram a few weeks ago, the doctor said that Baby Newton weighed around 10 ounces, so I'm assuming that since a couple weeks have passed, she's at least 15 ounces now! Her eyes and lips are more developed and she's looking even more like a newborn. Baby is sleeping in cycles - about 12-14 hours per day! What a lucky, lazy lady! Tiny tooth buds are developing beneath her gums too.

21 Weeks

Another week flying by and this little girl is moving even more! This past week Derek and I registered for all of her things! How does someone so small need so much stuff? Cute stuff too! I've been organizing and putting things away. The nursery is really coming together because we've got the changing table/dresser combo and the crib already. It's all so exciting!

No real changes this week, other than the bigger belly and wider hips! Cravings are not that exciting, other than me just eating every couple hours. Pineapple was a treat that really satisfied along with bowls of cereal and chocolate chip cookies.

Carrot: The babe is almost 11 inches long and weighs over a pound! Yay! She's big enough that I've been really feeling her movements too. As her digestive system preps for the outside world, she's manufacturing meconium - the tarry black substance we'll find in her first dirty diapers (ew)! Amazingly, she's already got a lifetime supply of eggs in her womb - about 6 million of them! She just keeps getting more and more amazing :)

20 Weeks

Halfway there! I've been feeling great and the Little Girl is moving all around and letting me know about it! We've been so excited about having a baby girl and we've been discussing names and can't wait to get out there and start shopping and planning the nursery. My belly is starting to grow faster and noticeably larger week by week. Apparently, I can put on a pound a week for here until the end of the pregnancy. Oh Boy! My sweet tooth continues to make me smile and I'm still  happy that nothing is too weird with my eating habits. So far no pickles and ice cream or any of that other silly stuff. I think it's been a couple weeks since I've gotten a donut; I better get on that soon!

Banana: Baby Girl weighs about 11 ounces and measures 6.5 inches long. She's still got a lot of growing to do though. Baby's using her taste buds finally and she's gulping down several ounces of amniotic fluid each day - that's significantly more than before. This swallowing is good practice for her digestive system.

19 Weeks

Baby Newton is a Girl! Derek and I are extremely excited and cannot wait for that little baby girl to be in our arms! We got into the sonogram room and the stenographer examined all sorts of angles of the baby. We saw her healthy heart, brain, spinal cord, arms and legs. She was moving all around as usual too! We also got to see some 3D images and live video of her face and little toes and fingers. I've gained a total of 12 pounds. I've got an appetite that won't quit and the energy to get started on that little girl's room. Our little girl is the size of a:

Mango: She's 6 inches long and weighs about 9 ounces. Her sensory development is exploding and her brain is designating specialized areas for smell, taste, hearing, vision and touch. The kidney's continue to make urine and the hair on her scalp is sprouting. A waxy protective coating called the vernix caseosa is forming on the skin to prevent it from pickling in my amniotic fluid.

Appointment change

Snow is on it's way! We are sad to announce that due to the storm, tomorrow's appointment to find out the sex of Little Baby Newton has been rescheduled. Now we have to wait another week! BOO! The new appointment date is March 12th.

Please stand by and keep your bets coming! This is proof that with children, things never go as planned! The blog will not be updated this weekend and I will now be posting everything on Tuesday.

Boy or Girl? The wait continues.....

18 Weeks

Is it a boy or is it a girl? The million dollar question that we'll be glad to have an answer to on Wednesday! Derek and I have been looking forward to this week for too many weeks now. Although, as soon as we let everyone know, the next question will be, "Have you thought of any names yet?" We'll let you know the answer to that in 5 months....

Last few days of Baby Newton being a little bit more of a mystery. Will it be Baby Boy Newton or Baby Girl Newton? We can't wait to immediately head to the store and pick out the decor and some baby clothes. Looks like next week is going to be a little more exciting that some of the past few! A couple more days and the real planning can get started.So let me tell you about some fun stuff THIS week:

I've had another week of feeling really good. Energy is great, attitude is great and appetite is great-ER ;) Krispy Kreme sucked me in one day when I drove by with that "Hot Now" sign. I polished off an entire box of Samoas in 3 days, by myself! The line at Michaels was too long and I was forced to buy a bag of happy little Sour Patch Kids. And if I didn't have self control, I could have eaten an entire bag of Chocolate Covered Pomegranates from Costco. (Bright side is, look at all the antioxidants I consumed!)With all that being said, I'm waiting for the doctor to tell me how much weight I've gained and not checking it myself this week.

Sweet Potato: Baby continues to grow and is about 5.6 inches long and weighs almost 7 ounces. This is the week to find out if it's a boy or a girl! Either there are noticeable genitals on our little boy or lack there of for our little girl. If it's a girl, she's formed her uterus and fallopian tubes by now. Baby Newton is yawning, hiccuping, sucking and swallowing. On top of that, it's twisting, rolling, punching and kicking too! (The extra movement must be the reason for the excessive sweet tooth.) Pretty sure that this child will be a super hero!