Pregnancy, Week 16

The weeks are seriously starting to fly by! I can't believe week 16 is almost over and am now starting week 17!

Here is a little bit from i-am-pregnant.com about what is going on in week 16:

At this point of your pregnancy, your baby is approximately 4.3 to 4.6 inches long and weighs 2.8 ounces. Not only is your baby growing, your uterus and placenta continue to grow to accommodate the growing baby inside of you! Just six weeks ago, your uterus weighed about 5 ounces. This week it now weighs 8.75 ounces! The amniotic fluid that surrounds the baby is increasing and there is about 7.5 ounces of fluid. You will easily be able to feel your uterus approximately three inches below your navel.

Five and a half inches tall and only six ounces in weight. The child can grasp with his hands, kick, or even somersault. At this time, your baby is holding her head erect. Because her muscles are developing, she can make some faces now. Your baby is able to squint, frown and open its mouth. There is enough calcium in the bones that they will show up on an x-ray. Your baby's fingernails are well formed now and the legs are longer than the arms. Because your baby is moving well now, you may begin to feel his movements! Some women say that the early movements feel like gas bubbles or a slight flutter. If you have not yet felt the baby move, don't worry. Fetal movements are usually felt between the 16th and 20th week of pregnancy. You may feel your heart beating 'louder'. This is because there is a lot more blood in your body than normal. (about 20-25% more

This week for me has been a week of worries. For a few days I had been feeling the baby move, and move on a regular basis. Then the next day I didn't feel anything. I started to worry about it right before I went to bed that night, and of course had to be woken up in the morning by a terrible dream. At about 6 am I was on the computer searching to see if it was normal to feel the baby move and then not move all of the sudden, or at least not be able to feel it. I was reassured that it was completely normal, and not feeling the movement is only a concern as your pregnancy progresses.
I was happy to be feeling the movements again later the next day. They have been sporadic since then, but at least not nonexistent.

When I was up on the computer that morning, I think I got a very small feeling of what it is like to be a concerned or worried mother. I haven't even met my baby yet, and already I am worrying about it. I guess I have a lifetime of that ahead of me.

Well besides this episode and the whole registry issue (See previous post entitled Overwhelmed) things have been good. I am still feeling good, and am noticing my belly slowly but surely getting larger and larger. If I am wearing a t-shirt it is still hard to tell, but if I wear anything else you definitely know I am prego. Here's to a good "Week 17!"