21 Weeks!!

Here is what 3D Pregnancy has to say this week:

Twenty-one is a magic number. It means independence. It means you just won a hand of blackjack. In pregnancy terms, it means you have gotten over the hump and you only have 19 weeks left!

Chances are good you're feeling someone performing a round-off back handspring in your uterus by now. Is there any other feeling this cool? Other highlights this week:

By now your baby looks like a mini-version of what she'll look like when she's born. All her facial features are formed and hair is growing on her head. She's even acting like a baby and will occasionally suck her thumb or yawn. Aww ...

Baby's heartbeat is getting stronger and can be heard using a good old-fashioned stethoscope. Ask for a listen at your next prenatal visit! By 21 weeks, fetal bone marrow starts making blood cells—previously done by the liver and spleen. This may not sound that exciting, but it's good news.

The amniotic fluid that has been cushioning your little bean now serves another purpose: Your baby uses it to "practice" chowing down. Yes, it sounds gross (as many aspects of pregnancy do), but it's an important step for your baby toward being able to chow down in the real world. Your baby has been swallowing amniotic fluid for a while now, but now the intestines are finally developed enough that she's absorbing small amounts of sugars from it. And let's face it, being able to effectively digest sugar is important at every stage of life.

Your baby now weighs between 10 and 11 ounces and is approximately 7 inches long—the size of a delicious, cold, frothy bottle of root beer. Float anyone?

Finding out this week that we are having a boy is very special to me. Read the previous post for more information on that appointment at the Doc's office! This week has been good and relaxing for me... we got snowed in in Georgia and the ice was so bad on our driveway that me and my husband couldn't make it to work. Luckily, he's the IT guy, so he could work from home. I had to take vacation days, but that didn't bother me!

Today is the only day this week I have to work - I'm off tomorrow to do laundry and pack for my trip to DC on Saturday. I hope that my flight only gets delayed and not canceled! I am ready for some girl time with my cousin Kimberly and just to relax and see some more of the city!