The Sea Monkey Is Swimming All Over!

I can feel our little monkey moving all the time. It started last week. I thought I felt something, but then just wasn't sure because it seemed so early. It's never been the flutters. Just this strange sensation. But I know it's Danny. It's reminiscent of last time. I didn't feel Angela until closer to the end. It took a long while. Maybe because I didn't know what I was feeling. Or because the last few weeks were so stressful between all of the tests. But this time, it's this happy little feeling. And I just know. Call me crazy. But, I can feel him a lot. Especially at work. Must be the way I sit in my chair. And at night before I fall asleep. When I lay flat on my back, it's like he's getting into position...only so I can flip on my side and screw him all up.

I just can't wait for when he's big enough, and moves a lot, and David can feel him. Sometimes I feel bad, because right now, all this physical strangeness is happening just to me. I'm looking forward to when he can feel some of the freakishness :)

Yesterday I bought a belly band, also called a "tummy tube". You wear it over your pants that don't fit so well. It allows you to wear pants just a *little* bit longer before moving into maternity pants. I bought white. It's really comfortable and I like it a lot. I wore it today over a pair of black pants today. It gives clothes the layered look. Now only if I was as cute as the girl in the picture.

So today makes 17-weeks. In six more weeks...I'll have made it past the 22w6d mark. That's when Angela was born.

What goes on at 17-weeks you ask. Let me tell you.

How your baby's growing:Your baby weighs 5 ounces now (about as much as a turnip), and he's around 5 inches long. He can move his joints, and his skeleton — until now rubbery cartilage — is starting to harden to bone. His sense of hearing is also developing. The umbilical cord, his lifeline to the placenta, is growing stronger and thicker.