8cm!!!

[Jade89]

i just looked on baby center and it said my baby this week is about 8cm...wow I diddn't expect baby be that big yet! Half a banana my baby was compared to the information about pregnancy is amazing!!

The fetus is now nearly 3 inches / 7 to 8 centimetres long from crown to rump and weighs nearly an ounce / 23 grams -- about half a banana. Its unique fingerprints are already in place. And when you poke your stomach gently and she feels it, your baby will start rooting -- that is, act as if she's searching for a nipple.

If you're having a girl, she now has approximately 2 million eggs in her ovaries; she will have only a million by the time she's born. She'll have fewer eggs as she gets older, and by age 17, the number will have dropped to 200,000.

As for you, the fog may be lifting, so to speak. For many women, the side effects of early pregnancy -- frequent urination, intense fatigue, nausea -- diminish sometime in the second trimester. Your uterus, while large enough to announce to onlookers that you're indeed pregnant, isn't so huge that it gets in your way. Even though birth is months away, your breasts may already start making colostrum, the fluid that will feed your baby for the first few days before your milk comes in.

Madness!!!!!

whats happening with everyone else?

 

[Sweetpea134]

You're halfway there! The top of your uterus now reaches your belly button and will grow about a centimetre per week. The fetus measures around 6 inches/ 15 centimetres long from crown to rump and weighs about 9 ounces/ 240 grams.

She has started to swallow amniotic fluid, and her kidneys continue to make urine. Hair on the scalp is sprouting.

Sensory development reaches its peak this week. The nerve cells serving each of the senses -- taste, smell, hearing, seeing, and touch -- are now developing in their specialised areas of the brain. Nerve cell production slows down as existing nerve cells grow larger and make more complex connections. If you're carrying a baby girl, she already has roughly six million eggs in her ovaries. By the time she's born, she'll have about one million.

I thought 20 weeks was half way there not 19

 

[Jade89]

I think it depends on how you look at it...your 19 weeks but also in your 20th week if you know what I mean?

 

[HollyHobby]

Mine's 10.5" which seems huge to me!
And it's either kicking my ovaries or my cysts are playing up.

 

[SoonToBeMrs]

Well.. I actually went out on Friday (payday) and headed into all the shops that sell maternity clothes (Dorothy Perkins, New Look, Next etc).. I spent loads on maternity clothes.. bit of retail therapy..

Lili has been moving alot just lately.. she's definately starting to react to voices and light.. I shone a torch on my tummy the other night in bed.. plenty of movement from her because of that.. it was cute. I'm now thinking that I should probably try and get her into a routine of not being active in the night and more active in the day..

Now that I have jeans I fit into that feel comfortable, I have been making more effort with the rest of me. Doing my hair like I used to and wearing make-up more.. it's a real confidence booster.

Sleeping is getting better for me.. I didn't get a body pillow from Aldi because they had all sold out.. but I have been using loads of pillows to prop my belly up and thankfully havent been moving about too much..

..this pregnancy is genrally going well.. I feel great, I've been getting loads of compliments lately.. and my OH's Mum has offered to buy the cot and some baby clothes so she is really getting involved which is lovely!

So.. that's what's been happening lately with me!