Pregnancy & Produce: 20 Wks

With all the excitement about our ultrasound I skipped right by our weekly produce update!

This week we have some fruit to help us picture how big our baby is-our updates are from www.babycenter.com & http://www.whattoexpect.com/ this week:

From http://www.whattoexpect.com/ :

"You've got a heavyweight in your belly at 20 weeks pregnant (well, in baby terms, anyway). Your little champ weighs about ten ounces and has a height, crown to rump, of about six and a half inches. Think small cantaloupe (and probably as sweet too)."

From http://www.babycenter.com/ :

"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)."

We actually know from our ultrasound this week that our little banana/cantaloupe actually weighs 12 ounces right now. I'm not sure they told us how long our little banana is though...I'll have to check out the video again and see if the graph at the end show the stats.

Already we have watched the video a time, or two...and I just can't get enough of seeing our little one. There is this one part in the video where our little wiggle worm just wouldn't cooperate and let the Dr. get a good look at the heart-two little hands would go up and cover the chest or just turn over-so funny, stubborn just like one of their parents...I'll let you guess which one.

~Melissa