17 Weeks Today!

How is our baby growing?

She/he is nearly 5.5 inches and our doctor says that it's dad's fault if she/he has a giant head (haha). Things are really moving now. This week, our baby's eyes look forward instead of to the sides, her/his ears are almost in their final place, and the rubbery cartilage that will become her/his skeleton is about to start hardening into bone.

How is my life changing?

I read that first time moms often start to feel their baby's movements around now. I get the fluttery feeling that the books describe but there's no soccer match yet with my bladder...