Today marks the halfway point! I'm 20 weeks exactly, and feeling sentimental about it. It's hard to believe that half of this pregnancy is already behind me. I wish I could stop time so that I could enjoy being pregnant forever. I always thought I'd be one of those women who just LOVES being pregnant...like it's how they were always meant to be, and once they are, they are truly in their element. While it's been different from what I expected, for the most part I do feel like one of those women. Yes, there are random aches and pains and weird annoying symptoms like round ligament pain and ever-present nasal congestion, but I wouldn't trade this feeling - that I am creating a new life inside my own body, that I can now feel moving around - for anything. Granted, my pregnancy has been really easy so far and I know I've been incredibly lucky in that respect. I'm not sure I would feel the same way if I was dealing with crippling nausea 24 hours/day.
Here's the belly as of yesterday morning:
And according to Babycenter.com:
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 her torso and hard to measure, measurements are taken from the top of her head to her 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 his 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).
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