20 Weeks!!

Hooray!!!!!! Our "bun in the oven" is half way done!!!! Ryan is moving around like crazy. I can't wait until she is kicking hard enough for Ethan to feel. Here is an update on me and then I will do one of Ryan!

I am feeling a lot better. I am only getting sick once a day and that is usually in the morning when I am getting ready for work. I have finally started gaining some weight. I lost around 5-6 pounds when I first got pregnant because I was so sick. At 16 weeks I was back at my starting weight, which was 130......and now I am 138!! I just started working Monday through Friday instead of Monday, Wednesday, Friday. I have also started working out too. I am doing the treadmill, elliptical, and a few machines with very few weight on them everyday......Okay maybe not every day but almost. I am also doing an Aqua Dynamics (water aerobics) class every week with my good friend Bethani!!!! We have so much fun doing it!!!!

Now here is what is going on with our little Ryan:

Ryan MacKenzie weighs about 10 1/2 ounces now. She's also around 6 1/2 inches long from head to bottom and about 10 inches from head to heel — the length of a banana. She's swallowing more these days, which is good practice for her digestive system. She's also producing meconium, a black, sticky by-product of digestion. This gooey substance will accumulate in her bowels, and we'll see it in her first soiled diaper (some babies pass meconium in the womb or during delivery).