22, 23, and now 24 weeks!!!

I have no excuse. I stink at updating my blog.

I did, however, manage to fall down a flight of slippery concrete stairs on December 19th while christmas shopping on my lunch break and landed myself in the ER for a few hours. I'm fine, and more importantly, so is my bean. I had a nasty bruise on my back for a few weeks there but i'm doing much better now.

Christmas was great. I was spoiled this year, more than any other, which was nice. Kyle and I are looking forward to spoiling our little bean next christmas =)

New Year's was as much fun as it can be for a pregnant person. I drank fake beers while sitting around and watching all my friends get gooned. Surprisingly, I made it to midnight, and Kyle and I left the party at 12:15!

Well, here are the last 3 weekly bean status reports. Sorry for the delay =)

22 WEEKS

Your baby now looks like a miniature newborn, checking in at 10.9 inches (the length of a spaghetti squash) and almost 1 pound. Her skin will continue to appear wrinkled until she gains enough weight to fill it out, and the fine hair (lanugo) that covers her head and body is now visible. Her lips are becoming more distinct, and the first signs of teeth are appearing as buds beneath her gum line. Her eyes are developed, though the iris (the colored part of the eye) still lacks pigment. Eyelids and eyebrows are in place, and her pancreas, essential for hormone production, is developing steadily.

23 WEEKS

Your baby is more than 11 inches long and weighs just over a pound (about as much as a large mango). His skin is red and wrinkled. Blood vessels in his lungs are developing to prepare him for breathing. He can swallow, but he normally won't pass his first stool (called meconium) until after birth. Loud noises heard often in utero — such as your dog barking or the roar of a vacuum cleaner — probably won't faze your baby when he hears them outside the womb.

24 WEEKS

Your baby's growing steadily, gaining about a quarter of a pound since last week, when she was just over a pound. Since she's almost a foot long (picture an ear of corn), that makes a pretty lean figure, but her body is filling out proportionally and she'll soon put on more baby fat. Your baby's skin is thin, translucent, and wrinkled, her brain is growing rapidly, and her taste buds are developing. Her lungs are developing "branches" of the respiratory "tree" and cells that produce surfactant, a substance **that helps the air sacs inflate easily.

~Preggo