19 Week Update

Here's what babycenter.com has to say about Kaylynn this week:

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.

It baffles me that it says she's 6 inches from head to bottom. I'm not that big, so I'm wondering where she's hiding this 6 inches of baby. Good things - she doesn't have cystic fibrosis and and we're low risk for down's syndrome. I'm starting to feel her kick me from the outside, sadly Brian hasn't been able to witness it yet. He almost caught her this morning, but she must have known we wanted him to feel. He was talking to my belly saying "Kaylynn, kick mommy, kick her right in the uterus!" It was pretty funny.