17 Weeks!

How your baby is growing: Your baby weighs about 5 ounces now, and he's around 5 inches long — about the size of a large onion. The umbilical cord, his lifeline to the placenta, is growing stronger and thicker. Your baby can move his joints, and his skeleton — until now, rubbery cartilage — is starting to harden into bone. Some of it will remain cartilage for years after he's born. A newborn's skeleton has 300 parts (a combination of bone and cartilage). As your child grows, some of these parts harden and fuse together. By the time your baby reaches adulthood, he'll have just 206 bones.

My Take: Many of the books I’ve been reading have warned that the mucus in my body is going to get whacked out. Over the last 2 weeks I’ve definitely seen this happen. The humidifier in our bedroom has been wonderful, and it’s not 60 seconds after I leave the room that my nose gets stuffed up and bleeds a bit when I blow it. All normal and not a big deal!

I think I’m starting to feel the baby move inside me. It’s a little tingle that starts in one area and then goes across me in a straight line. It feels like a feather being drawn across me from the inside. It doesn’t happen very often (1 or 2/day), but I do notice that if it is what I think it is, the baby likes oranges.