20 Weeks!

How baby is growing:

Your fantastic fetus' fragile tiny bones continue to ossify and toughen while their itsy bitsy finger and toe pads (and unique finger prints) are finishing up.

Your little womb-dancer also has teeth buds sprouting beneath their gum line.

And finally! Your wee one's limbs have reached their relative proportions — no more bobble-head!

Their little pink lips are more defined, and might be helping out in a bit of prenatal thumb-sucking.

If you have a little boy: their tiny testes are descending, though they have not yet passed the abdominal wall.

And in a final anti-alien development: the first of their tiny eyelashes and eyebrows are now present.

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).

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.)

Weight Gain? 15lbs total so far

Stretch Marks? Nope

Sleep? I am up at least once per night to go to the washroom, but am not having as hard of a time falling back to sleep as I was. However once awake in the morning, I am usually up for good.

Best Moment of the Week? Hmmm I would have to say today...baby has been moving like crazy. Love it!

Food Cravings? Deep fried pickles!!!!!!!!

Movement? Yep, as I said above. Usually baby likes to start moving around 10pm for a while and then in the mornings when I wake up. I lay in bed for a bit (if I can) and just rub my belly and feel baby move. It is the most incredible feeling in the entire world. Today is the first day where I have felt baby a lot during day hours.

Milestone? Not particularly. Today is 20 weeks....so in four weeks I will reach my next milestone

Emotions? Pretty good. Have ended up in tears a few times this week, but nothing too bad. I feel really alone sometimes, so that makes it hard for me.