Letter to My Baby – Gestational Week 20

Dear Baby

Well, here we are, 1/2 way through.  Only 20 weeks to go!

At this point you are about 320 grams and 16cm long.  From what I understand, you are about 1/2 the length that you will be once you are born.

Today was our ‘big scan’.  We saw your profile and your arms and legs.  There is one great scan pic, which I will put up tomorrow, that shows you with your hand on your forehead, like you are totally verklempt!  All of your bits and pieces are exactly where they need to be.  Your heart has four chambers, your brain has all its lobes.  Now if you would only kick hard enough for your daddy to feel!

And right on schedule, mummy’s insulin needs increased.  They say insulin resistance starts at 20 weeks as your placenta gets stronger and what do you know?  Last Friday I woke up to crazy numbers that never went away so I called and spoke to the Diabetic Education centre (who have been treating mummy very well all through her pregnancy with you) and they suggested an insulin increase.  And that it was because you were having a growth spurt!

This week is mummy’s 40th birthday.  Try to go easy on your old mum, huh?  She’ll be a bit older than a lot of your friend’s mums.  Hopefully that won’t bother you too much!

Daddy thinks I should write these down on paper, as well as store them here, because he is worried the technology will have changed too much for you to read this when you’re old enough to understand it.  I figure if we get to that point, I’ll just print these pages out!

So you keep on growing in there, okay?  And remember…

I love you.

Mummy