23 Week Update

It is a brand new year and so hard to believe! To think back over the last year and what has happened is just amazing. This time last year we were just beginning to start trying to have a baby and look at me now! :) I am so excited to see what all this year is going to bring us. We can hardly wait to meet these boys.

As I mentioned in my last update we went to St.Louis for New Years. My doctor let me have one last trip so I wanted to go see my family. Justin and I usually go every few months so it is going to be hard not being able to go until after the boys arrive. We had a wonderful time though seeing everyone.

Well here we are starting out the 23rd week. Just 14 at the very most left. Crazy!!!! I had a dream last night that the boys came early and I had nothing ready. I hadn't had any showers yet so I had very few things for them. Even though they were early they were perfectly healthy baby boys that were home with us. Let's see what this week has in store for us:

Week 23:
At eight inches and slightly over a pound, your baby is the size and shape of a small doll. (But then, you already knew that you were carrying a living doll, didn't you?) This week marks the beginning of some serious weight gain. Your baby's weight in the next four weeks alone should double (and you may feel as though yours is too).

You have probably heard your developing baby's heartbeat through a Doppler a number of times already (though you never get tired of hearing it), but by now you can also hear it through a standard stethoscope. What a heart throb!

Your baby's skin is reddish in color now because of the developing blood vessels underneath (remember, the skin is very thin still). It also hangs loosely from his or her little body at this point. That's because the skin grows faster than the fat develops during fetal growth. But don't worry. By the time your baby is born, he or she will be pleasantly plump and filled out - from chubby cheeks to chubby toes.