24 Weeks

How far along: 24 Weeks


Total Weight Gain/Loss: None

Maternity Clothes: Seems like my wardrobe is getting a little smaller since most of my old shirts are too little

Stretch Marks: Xander calls them my belly cracks

Sleep: Kinda rough here lately due to the sciatica and hip pain

Movement: Sometimes she kicks so hard out of nowhere that it scares me and I jump

Food Cravings/Aversions: Lemonade, chocolate, ice cream

Gender: Girl

Belly Button In or Out: Wide and shallow

What I Miss: being able to feel my legs

What I am Looking Forward To: Well just got our bedding in so onto the next step of paint.

Weekly Wisdom: Don’t try to do too much at once when cleaning because you will pay for it later. I had a nice clean house but wasn’t able to move for a day and a half.

Best Moment This Week: Getting the bedding in is one more step to having Gracie’s room done. I go thru so many emotions in one day sometimes I want her here right now so I can meet the person who dances on my bladder and to show her off to the world because I’m so proud of her and other times I want to be selfish and keep her to myself forever because at some point I won’t be able to protect her anymore. Hormones are making this mama full of anxiety lately.

Here's a few pics

No fruit pic this week.

Fetal development in pregnancy week 24: fetus in sixth month This is another big week for your magical growing baby! Just take a look at the checklist for this week: 1) ears: done; 2) fingernails: done; 3) (if you have a boy) testicles: taking their 3-4 day trip from the abdominal wall to the scrotum; and 4) lungs walls: secreting “surfactant”. What’s that? Well, surfactant is sort of what it sounds like: a surface-activated fat whose main purpose is to assist the your baby's little lungs during inflation (as in, filling with air, not getting more expensive). Just in case you’re curious, your submerged baby is still breathing in amniotic fluid, preparing and rehearsing the lungs an oxygen-filled life outside the womb. By the end of this week, your child will be weighing around 2 lbs and 14 inches long. Your cutie-patootie may even be a little more plump, but isn't anywhere near their full baby-fatted cute-self. Most of the “filling out” is coming up in that long awaited (and slightly dreaded?) third trimester.