So what happens when you eat one third of a pound cake by yourself? See for yourself:
This week, Sophie is gulping down several ounces of amniotic fluid, both for hydration and nutrition. She’s practicing swallowing and digesting. And, these days, those taste buds actually work! Studies show that after birth, babies are most interested in tastes they’ve already experiences through amniotic fluid. I guess this means that Sophie is going to want a lot of pound cake, oranges, and Girl Scout Lemonade cookies.
Size wise, Sophie is now the size of a banana:
In other news, we’ll be heading back to get another ultrasound on Monday. Sophie’s friskiness at the last ultrasound meant that they couldn’t get all the necessary measurements. I’m rather relieved to be going again because I want to confirm that Sophie is indeed a Sophie before I color her world pink.
So what does that little box above mean to my life? Function, apparently. Since the first trimester, my OB has had me on one Unisom a night. It is an absolute miracle worker. The original Unisom is actually just doxylamine, an antihistamine that has a couple of nice side effects:
- It makes you pretty sleepy
- It seems to miraculously cure morning sickness
Taking doxylamine and eliminating certain foods and smells from my life has taken care of most of my morning sickness. Aside from the cold this past week, I had been feeling pretty good. Saturday night, I was getting rather sick of staring at that little blue pill and decided that 20 weeks was plenty. The morning sickness must be gone by now, right? WRONG! Less than 48 hours later I was back on doxylamine and, once again, very thankful for its existence.