22 weeks pregnant

Your pregnancy: 22 weeks

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How your baby's growing:

At 11 inches (the length of a spaghetti squash) and almost 1 pound, your baby is starting to look like a miniature newborn. His lips, eyelids, and eyebrows are becoming more distinct, and he's even developing tiny tooth buds beneath his gums. His eyes have formed, but his irises (the colored part of the eye) still lack pigment. If you could see inside your womb, you'd be able to spot the fine hair (lanugo) that covers his body and the deep wrinkles on his skin, which he'll sport until he adds a padding of fat to fill them in. Inside his belly, his pancreas — essential for the production of some important hormones — is developing steadily.

21 weeks pregnant

****update for today: I felt Lilly kick from the OUTSIDE today! It was amazing. Sammy missed it but I've been waiting for her to do it again. She did it right after I ate mac and cheese but if she's like her mom, she will eat way too much of that yummie goodness.

our pregnancy: 21 weeks

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How your baby's growing:

Your baby now weighs about three-quarters of a pound and is approximately 10 1/2 inches long — the length of a carrot. You may soon feel like she's practicing martial arts as her initial fluttering movements turn into full-fledged kicks and nudges. You may also discover a pattern to her activity as you get to know her better. In other developments, your baby's eyebrows and lids are present now, and if you're having a girl, her vagina has begun to form as well.

20 week ultrasound!

It's definitely a Lilly in there! She kept turning her back and not wanting us to see her face but we got a glimpse :) At one point she had her ankles crossed and her hands behind her head, just like mommy used to do as a baby :)
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Enjoy!

We are HALF WAY there!!!!

Showing her girl parts

Her pretty little profile

Another perfect profile

She kept turning her face away from us (I think she might be a tad shy....)look at her cute little ears! I love it!

20 weeks pregnant

Your pregnancy: 20 weeks


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How your baby's growing:
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).

See what your baby looks like this week. (Or see what fraternal twins look like in the womb this week.)

Updated belly shot

Well, my sister took a belly shot of me today... I still feel like I'm just getting fat and not pregnant looking, but everyone tells me otherwise...
Lilly has started moving around and I'm feeling her move...I noticed it big time when I was laying down eating blueberries and turned over really quick she didn't like that so much!

The summer is going to go pretty quick I can tell...Sam is busy helping me at weddings through the summer and I have a lot of portrait sessions to keep me busy! I'm hoping once little peanut comes I can get back to shooting super quick but we'll see!

We are registered for our birth class... we're doing the Bradley Method and the instructor is very nice and if we can't find a doula we click with we might have her as our doula... horray!

We are half way there!!!!!!

19 weeks pregnant

our pregnancy: 19 weeks


How your baby's growing:
Your baby's sensory development is exploding! Her brain is designating specialized areas for smell, taste, hearing, vision, and touch. Some research suggests that she may be able to hear your voice now, so don't be shy about reading aloud, taking to her, or singing a happy tune if the mood strikes you.

Your baby weighs about 8 1/2 ounces and measures 6 inches, head to bottom —about the size of a large heirloom tomato. Her arms and legs are in the right proportions to each other and the rest of her body now. Her kidneys continue to make urine and the hair on her scalp is sprouting. A waxy protective coating called the vernix caseosa is forming on her skin to prevent it from pickling in the amniotic fluid.