Your baby's sensory development is exploding! Her brain is designating specialized areas for smell, taste, hearing, vision, and touch. Some research suggests that she may be able to hear your voice now, so don't be shy about reading aloud, talking to her, or singing a happy tune if the mood strikes you.
Your baby weighs about 8 1/2 ounces and measures 6 inches, head to bottom — about the size of a large heirloom tomato. Her arms and legs are in the right proportions to each other and the rest of her body now. Her kidneys continue to make urine and the hair on her scalp is sprouting. A waxy protective coating called the vernix caseosa is forming on her skin to prevent it from pickling in the amniotic fluid.
19 weeks! Things continue to go well, I'm a little more tired in the past week but I am chalking that up to my kids having a tummy bug and being up at weird hours. Belly is definitely growing. I'll post my next belly shot next week at 20 weeks! I'm feeling Sprout more and more, and sometimes on the outside.
We had the ultrasound today. It always seems strange to see this mini human inside of me, knowing the baby is that big already. Sure, I have a belly, but it just hits me all over again - that thing is inside of me. No offense to the poor child, it just always hits around this time of pregnancy - haha.
So, the guys went and I am so thankful that the ultrasound technician let them both in. With my first surrogacy, only one person was allowed in with me during the measurements, which sort of bummed us all out. This time the tech had no issue with both of the guys in there, so we all went back and got too it. I should say that I was naughty, I drank some Mt. Dew before the appointment to make sure Sprout would be awake. I couldn't finish it. In fact, I arrived at the office and parked my car and was like, "Why do I feel like this?" and then I realized I was shaking from the Mt. Dew! Yuck. I felt so off for awhile, just really ill and bleah.
Well, the Dew worked, baby was awake. The tech was great and actually got the measurements she needed pretty quickly. Baby showed the goods pretty easily and Sprout is a BOY! I honestly didn't know either way, I was going back and forth for weeks, so I chalked it up to me just not knowing. I wasn't surprised to see that Sprout is a boy though, because chances were high that it'd be a boy.
So, the daddies are happy, though they would have been either way, of course. I'm still continuing to refer to this baby as Sprout, even though they have a name for him. I just can't quite grasp that I already know the gender of this babe, since it seems so early still! (And it's not!)
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