The “bump”
Sunday, 28th January 2007 by tom
In between all the building work, we are occasionally reminded of other large events coming up this year. Julie is now at 16 weeks and beginning to show. As promised, here is the first picture of the bump, for comparison with the lithe figure pictured in an earlier post.
We’re not yet into maternity clothes, but Julie is reluctantly beginning to set aside some pairs of trousers which won’t fit her again until after the baby is born.
According to our pregnancy book, the baby will now be about 11cm from crown to rump. It has tiny fingernails and toenails and is growing hair. At this stage it will be practising breathing (inhaling and exhaling amniotic fluid). Assuming Dad’s genes haven’t been too detrimental, it can hear sounds and react to them!
It will also be moving around quite a lot and from now onwards Julie might begin to be able to feel this movement. Highlander fans will be delighted to know that this is known as “quickening”. We know from the ultrasound that it isn’t twins, so all I’ll say to that is, “There can be only one!”
