Feeling: Been feeling a little bigger lately...I finally bought some maternity jeans which are so much more comfortable and a couple maternity shirts. Really the selection at stores of maternity stuff around here is pretty slim, so I fear I'm going to have to order a lot of things online or else make some trips to Michigan Ave/State St to try them on at Gap/Old Navy (my fav places to get jeans/work pants). I think I've been feeling the baby moving a little sometimes if I lay still, like when I first lay down to go to bed. My doc said it will feel like fluttering or poking, and I think I'm feeling some of that. Cravings this week have been mostly fruit, fruit smoothies, fruit juice, and milkshakes! We've also started the baby registery process, oh dear lord...we have a ways to go. ;)
Weight: 130 lbs (yikes! I've never hit the 130 mark in my life!)
Fun Facts About Week 17: Our baby is about five inches long and more than three and a half ounces — the size of your open hand. Body fat (baby's, that is) is beginning to form and will continue to accumulate through the end of your pregnancy. By the time your baby is born, body fat will make up about two-thirds of his or her weight (and will make all those chubby parts especially yummy).
Your baby is almost certainly listening up by now. In fact, loud noises — the dog barking, the doorbell ringing — will actually startle your baby (and also get him or her used to such noises; for instance, fetuses who regularly hear a dog barking will become babies who sleep right through Fido's outbursts). Your baby's eyes (which have fortunately finished their migration to the front of his or her head) are making small side-to-side movements and can even perceive some light, though the eyelids are still sealed. And since practice makes perfect, your baby is sharpening his or her sucking and swallowing skills in preparation for that first (and second…and third) suckle at your breast or bottle. In fact, most of the survival reflexes that your baby will have at birth are being perfected in utero right now.
Your baby is almost certainly listening up by now. In fact, loud noises — the dog barking, the doorbell ringing — will actually startle your baby (and also get him or her used to such noises; for instance, fetuses who regularly hear a dog barking will become babies who sleep right through Fido's outbursts). Your baby's eyes (which have fortunately finished their migration to the front of his or her head) are making small side-to-side movements and can even perceive some light, though the eyelids are still sealed. And since practice makes perfect, your baby is sharpening his or her sucking and swallowing skills in preparation for that first (and second…and third) suckle at your breast or bottle. In fact, most of the survival reflexes that your baby will have at birth are being perfected in utero right now.
And here's some proof that your baby is truly one of a kind (as if you needed any!). Within the next week or so, the pads on your baby's fingertips and toes will become adorned with completely individual swirls and creases (aka fingerprints).
Speaking of "Fido" Steve took this really cute pic of Rigby kissing my belly! ;)
She can't wait to be a big sister! ;)
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