We made it to 20 weeks on Saturday!!! Cannot believe we are into our second half of this journey already. I'm feeling amazing and definitely looking pregnant now! On Saturday, our little guy kicked me like crazy in my rib for about 3 hours during the day...this was the first time I have felt him during the day, not in the morning or at night while lying still in bed. I was shopping with Mom and we were actually talking about him when he started kicking. I'm pretty sure he knew we were talking about him. :) He kept it up for the rest of the afternoon! It is the most amazing and surreal feeling.
Here's an update of his growth:
Your baby weighs about 10 1/2 ounces now. He's also around 6 1/2 inches long from head to bottom and about 10 inches from head to heel — the length of a banana. (For the first 20 weeks, when a baby's legs are curled up against his torso and hard to measure, measurements are taken from the top of his head to his bottom — the "crown to rump" measurement. After 20 weeks, he's measured from head to toe.)
He's swallowing more these days, which is good practice for his digestive system. He's also producing meconium, a black, sticky by-product of digestion. This gooey substance will accumulate in his bowels, and you'll see it in his first soiled diaper (some babies pass meconium in the womb or during delivery).
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