Baby is the size of an onion
Your baby's skeleton is changing from soft cartilage to bone, and the umbilical cord — her lifeline to the placenta — is growing stronger and thicker. Your baby weighs 5 ounces now (about as much as a turnip), and she's around 5 inches long from head to bottom. She can move her joints, and her sweat glands are starting to develop.Credit: Babycenter
This image is about right as far as where baby is sitting in my tummy. This is taken from FitPregnancy's Website for week 16. At night when we look at my belly, we will often notice it being lop-sided, assuming maybe the baby's head has ended up on one side. I also will suck my stomach in--and it is so funny to see that below my belly button it just stays sticking out--which indicates baby has claimed his space!
BABY IS KICKING--- or tumbling or flipping. Either way I have begun to recognize baby's movements. They happen once or twice a day for a couple kicks at a time. It's very faint usually (easily mistaken for gas) but for some reason yesterday baby was doing FLIPS in my stomach (probably due to all the chocolate from Valentine's day). It was a sensation similar to gas bubbles passing through my tummy, but a little different. It came from the same spot every time--and it was a little more pleasant. Also each one felt the same as the ones before, whereas gas usually moves its way around your stomach. He is making himself known to the world!
Baby is now able to hear, as it said above, his bones are starting to harden, and the first ones to develop are his ear bones--so he can hear mommy's tummy when it grumbles as well as my heartbeat and voice! Daddy has tried talking to him too some, and gets mad at mommy if she turns up the radio too loud with a song he doesn't like. =)
For Valentine's Day, Darin and I went to Bombay house and had some great curry. Baby has been exposed to quite a bit of a variety of foods--thai, korean, japanese, sri lankan--so I figured he is okay with ethnic food.... not quite this time, he was not happy with Indian. I thought it was a fluke and at the left overs the next day--no fluke. I had some bad tummy aches after that. Now that baby has taken over the lower half of my stomach it's harder for my intestines to pass food through, causing tummy aches to last much much longer.... and I expect it won't get much better from here.
Baby's gender can be known by an ultrasound at this point, although the doctors make us wait until 20 weeks to do other measurements as well. I thought we could go pay a little extra and find out early for Valentine's but Darin said he'd rather just wait. 3 more weeks and we will know what this little munchin will be. I always refer to baby as "he" although today he/she kicked when I did--and I joked with Darin that she's probably mad I keep calling her a boy... after which she kicked again. So we will see!
Til next time,
The Brinleys
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