20 Week Update

I'll give our 20 week update a day early. I'm off to Angel Fire, New Mexico tomorrow for a week - my last free week before I start school stuff again. Time is about to fly by. Next thing we know, it'll be December. We've got a big month ahead of us. I'm starting my first REAL year of teaching and Brian will begin his law classes. I think it's fair to say we're both a little nervous.

Your baby weighs about 10 1/2 ounces now. She'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 her head to his bottom — the "crown to rump" measurement. After 20 weeks, she's measured from head to toe.) She's swallowing more these days, which is good practice for her digestive system. She's also producing meconium, a black, sticky by-product of digestion. This gooey substance will accumulate in her bowels, and you'll see it in her first soiled diaper (some babies pass meconium in the womb or during delivery).

Kaylynn has been a gymnast these past few days. She's moving all around, all the time. More so today, I think than ever. Perhaps it's because I've been sitting all day doing this GT training and she really wishes I'd move around so she'll be rocked to sleep. She kicked Brian good this morning, which made him smile. Hopefully it put him in a good mood before he left for work.