Week 21-23 Pregnancy VLOG, baby 5 by Teresa Palmer
Weeks?
21 - 23
What’s baby up to?
Week 21
Size: Around 18 cm long (crown to rump)
Weight: About 360 grams
Comparable to: A large carrot
Development: Baby’s kicks and wiggles are getting stronger. Their taste buds are forming, and they’re starting to taste the flavors from what you eat which is very very cool- a lotta smashed avocado and kombucha for my babe!
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Week 22
Size: Around 19 cm long (crown to rump)
Weight: Roughly 430 grams
Comparable to: A spaghetti squash
Development: Baby’s features are looking more defined and newborn-ish! Less alien looking finally. Their eyes are also fully formed. Mark is gunning for our first green eyed baby!
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Week 23
Size: About 20 cm long (crown to rump)
Weight: Around 500 grams
Comparable to: A grapefruit
Development: Skin is still translucent but gradually becoming less see-through. Baby is practicing breathing movements, even though lungs aren’t fully developed yet. Tiny eyebrows and eyelashes might be sprouting now and if they take after me they will likely not grow longer than this 🤣
Anything new these weeks?
There’s a real pattern to the movement now! Bubby likes to wake me up with kicks and movement and then dance around at nighttime for a few hours. Just loving every little reminder of them in there, Mark has felt the baby once and so had Bodhi.
Challenges
Kicking this damn cold that has just come back with vengeance!!! I’ve had a cough since April and then just as it was kind of lingering a new cold emerged worse than ever however it’s been much more short lived- really only a week and I can feel myself feeling much better! Definitely had a few night time panics about not being able to breathe.
Reflections
The sickness really took me out, it made me feel a lot further along than I am and I remember thinking numerous nights when the coughing was relentless that there’s no way I could do this again and blaming it on my “geriatric” pregnancy. However now I’m through the other side I’m back to feeling like myself and daydreaming about more babies 😂 I also realize how much I’ve taken health for granted in the past and never will again!