The Kidney Bean: Twenty-week visit

Friday, February 10, 2006

Twenty-week visit

Kidney Bean is three-quarters of a pound. S/he's active and a bit stubborn, reluctant to pose for many photos. That didn't stop Linda, the ultrasound tech, from getting some good ones, though. I'll post them on Monday.

I gained another five pounds since my visit five weeks ago. :( The midwife, Julie, was perfectly unconcerned, but I've read plenty that says I should only be gaining a half pound per week. She encouraged me to take a bit of exercise and eat better. My blood pressure is great, and the screening from the last visit tested negative for Down Syndrome.

1 Comments:

At 6:25 PM, Sherri Sanders said...: That's awesome Jessica!! My doctor advised me to watch my carbs, you would be amazed.

If only I had the will power to do that now.....

Two weeks: conception occurred (during the 40 weeks of her pregnancy, a mommy is actually pregnant for only 38 weeks)
Three weeks: our kidney bean (K.B.) was a little ball of cells called a blastocyst
Four weeks: K.B. became an embryo and started making me feel queasy
Five weeks: K.B.'s heart started beating
Six weeks: K.B. started moving
Seven weeks: K.B. started to develop teeth
Eight weeks: K.B. grew to the size of a kidney bean :)
Nine weeks: K.B.'s tail disappeared
Ten weeks: K.B. became a fetus
Eleven weeks: K.B.'s webbed hands and feet separated to form fingers and toes
Twelve weeks: K.B.'s little kidneys started working
Thirteen weeks: K.B.'s unique fingerprints were in place
Fourteen weeks: K.B. and Mommy started the second trimester!
Fifteen weeks: K.B. was able to sense light through his/her fused eyelids and could move away if I shined a flashlight at my stomach
Sixteen weeks: K.B. was about 4 1/2 inches head to bottom and pumped 25 quarts of blood each day
Seventeen weeks: K.B.'s hearing began to develop
Eighteen weeks: K.B. was roughly 5 1/2 inches head to bottom and weighed seven ounces
Nineteen weeks: K.B. sprouted hair on his/her scalp
Twenty weeks: K.B. was 6 1/2 inches from head to bottom and ten inches from head to heel
Twenty-one weeks: K.B.'s eyelids and eyebrows were fully developed
Twenty-two weeks: K.B. developed teeth buds
Twenty-three weeks: K.B. was eleven inches long and weighed more than a pound
Twenty-four weeks: K.B.'s taste buds were developing
Twenty-five weeks: K.B. was about thirteen-and-a-half inches and weighed a pound and a half
Twenty-six weeks: K.B. could hear better all the time as the nerve pathways in its ears continued to develop
Twenty-seven weeks: K.B.'s brain tissues developed further
Twenty-eight weeks: K.B. had eyelashes
Twenty-nine weeks: K.B. weighed 2 1/2 pounds and was 15 inches long
Thirty weeks: K.B. weighed almost three pounds and had 20/400 vision
Thirty-one weeks: K.B. weighed over three pounds and was 16 inches long
Thirty-two weeks: K.B. grew to nearly four pounds and was almost 17 inches long
Thirty-three weeks: K.B.'s bones began to harden
Thirty-four weeks: K.B.'s central nervous system was still maturing, but its lungs were fairly well developed
Thirty-five weeks: K.B.'s kidneys were fully developed and its liver could process some waste products
Thirty-six weeks: K.B. is gaining about an ounce a day now