Week 22

Your baby is able to pick up and react to more stimuli. For example, music, sudden loud noises, or vibrations from a bus ride can stir your baby into activity. If your baby is a boy the testes will have started to drop. Your baby's brain is growing rapidly and will continue to grow for the next five years. Though your baby is gaining important amounts of fat, he or she is still very lean at 1% body fat. The baby's eyelids are making blinking movements though they are still fused shut.

Right now your baby is about the size of a child's mini Nerf football.

Based on our ultrasound yesterday the baby is 1 pound 2 oz and we are right on target with the due date of October 20.

Mommy’s uterus is continuing to grow, but you're probably feeling pretty good -- no more morning sickness, and your abdomen isn't so large that it's getting in the way very much. You may still be getting leg and foot cramps, as well as mild swelling of ankles and feet.