Letter to My Baby – Gestational Week 19

Dear Baby

I’ve been wanting to write to you for awhile, so we can look back together when you’re older and you’ll know how it felt to have you inside of me.  But I was afraid to until I got that glorious number last week, that 1:1002 of low risk for genetic disorders.

If the odds hadn’t been that good your daddy and I would have had to make the hardest decision we’ve ever had to make.  Do we risk an amnio and possible miscarriage or do we just see what happens? I, and your daddy, are so relieved that we never have to make that decision.

The 19 weeks gestational is an estimate as well.  You see, I use Tuesday as your weekly age day as when I had my second scan, the one where you had a good strong heartbeat for sure, you were exactly 7 weeks.  Since then the dates have moved around a bit, but only by a few days here and there.  So I decided, rather than recalculating all the time, to call Tuesdays as your day.  And so every Tuesday your daddy and I look in the pregnancy week by week book to see how big you are and what bits of you have developed.

This week, week 19, you are starting to develop muscle, which I knew because you are poking me a lot!  And you’re getting some fat deposits, to make you look more like a baby and less like a skeleton!!  You weigh about 260 grams and are about 15 cm long.

As I mentioned, in the past week you’ve been poking the heck out of me! I love it!  Well, I must admit I didn’t so much love it at 3am the other day, but I think that was because my bladder was full and you didn’t have any room!!!

I, of course, think about you every day.  And talk to you, even though you can’t quite hear me yet.  I think about how many people, besides me and your daddy, already love you.  6 grandparents, 16 aunts and uncles, and 13 cousins!  Including one cousin who will be born either right after or right before you!  How lucky are you?

I am counting the weeks and days until June, my little one.  And then I get to meet you.

Love

Mummy