Your Mommy is 23 weeks pregnant today! One more week to viability....but you on the other hand are already measuring 24 weeks! According to BabyCenter.com, you should have gained about 4 oz. since last week, which puts you around 1 lb 4oz! You should also be about a foot long (12 inches)! You are probably still long and lean but putting a little baby fat on your bones as the days go by. Your brain is also growing quickly now, and your taste buds are continuing to develop. Your lungs are developing "branches" of the respiratory "tree" as well as cells that produce surfactant, a substance that will help your air sacs inflate once you are born.
Mommy has been noticing a pattern of your movement for quite some time now. She has also noticed that you are more active one day with large movements while resting the next with small flutters and rolls.....yet usually at the same time frame of each day. It is recommended that she start tracking kick counts at 24 weeks since she is a high risk pregnancy. This means she will focus on your movements the same time each day and track how long it takes to move, kick, flutter or roll 10 times. Once she tracks the 10th movement of yours, she will record the amount of time it took. The goal of kick tracking is to see a trend in your movement over time. If Mommy sees the trend line go down drastically or if you do not move 10 times within a two hour period, something might be wrong ....which means she goes to the emergency room for monitoring......Let's just hope this scare never happens!
Here's the 23 week bare belly pictures!
Don't forget to look at the belly video at the top of this blog!
Love, Grandma Dason
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