Today I am officially 24 weeks along and doing great! I had a doctors appointment yesterday and as it has been since the beginning, everything looks great! I was measured to make sure that I am growing well, and I am. Gotta make sure there is plenty of room in there for the Little Marshmallow to grow! Dr. Olender also listened to our Little Marshmallows heartbeat which sounds great and strong! She definitely had to do some chasing around before she was able to listen long enough to get a calculated heart rate, the little one doesn’t like to sit still!

At 24 weeks, here are some of the changes that take place with our little marshmallow:

• Our Little Marshmallow is now about 13 and 1/2 inches long and weighs about 1 pound 8 ounces.
• Our little ones ears and fingernails have finished growing and developing and he or she now has a distinct set of fingerprints.
• He or she is almost completely formed and will now begin to deposit brown fat which is needed to retain body heat after birth.
• Our Little Marshmallow is also beginning to use his or her hands and feet to explore tactile sensations.

I will be going in in several weeks for my third trimester GTC test and I am hoping that at this point an ultrasound can be done to determine the sex of our baby. I wanted to do one in office at this last appointment, but the one time I am hoping to do something my OB is stuck over at the hospital for a patients delivery and was just walking in as I arrived. She had 5 patients backed up before me and then several after me so there wasn’t time for one. Oh well, I am ok with the idea that if I am not meant to know until the last ultrasound then so be it! Until then, I wait and enjoy every minute of my pregnancy and life in general.