Can hardly believe that we are now 20 weeks and half way to having our baby in our arms!! The most exciting news of this week will be coming on Thursday when we find out the sex of Baby McDonald!! Can't wait! Luckily at work this week, we are super busy with our special so time should go by fast!
This week:
*Our baby weighs about 10 1/2 ounces now. He/she also is 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, which I believe is how they will measure him/her on Thursday!!
*He/She is swallowing more these days, which is good practice for his digestive system.
*He/She is 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 (really excited to watch David change his first diaper!!!)
*If we are having a girl, her uterus is now fully formed and her ovaries are holding about seven million primitive eggs. If we are having a boy, his testicles have begun their descent from the abdomen to their ultimate destination — the scrotum.
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