17 Weeks

The baby is getting bigger - about 5 inches now, which is about the length of your hand to the tip of your pinky finger. My uterus must be growing pretty rapidly because I've had some abdominal pain this week that the doctor has said is round ligament pain. I'm not having any other problems, so she said it wasn't anything to worry about. We listened for the baby's heartbeat which is was a strong 142 bpm. I haven't felt the baby moving yet, but it shouldn't be too long before I do. The skeleton of the baby is starting to harden to bone and the baby is beginning to develop its sense of hearing. I guess I'm going to have to start singing to it...or do you think that would just traumatize him/her?
My mom was here over the weekend and we got a lot accomplished. We now have a huge pile of stuff for a garage sale. She helped us go through closets, drawers, boxes of papers, etc. We can now open most of our closets without being scared that something is going to jump out at us. We bought hooks and bins to hang and store a lot of stuff, which has really helped with the organization. I found a lot of stuff that I hadn't seen in awhile. On a sadder note, she made me throw away some things that I didn't really want to get rid of. Like my pay stubs from working my campus job at LSU where I made $700/semester. Don't you think I'll need those someday?? And she made me get rid of my papers and notes from my first year of graduate school that I haven't looked at since. My notes from college must be stored in the closet at her house somewhere. I definitely might need those some day!
Ok, so in the end, we got rid of a lot of stuff that we needed to get rid of. Hopefully it will be a successful garage sale!
She did the ring test on me, because I had been getting some huge inconsistencies in the results. She showed me the right way to do it and ever since then, every time I do the test, it says Girl, Boy, Girl, Boy. Am I really going to have 4 children?!
We'll know the sex of the baby pretty soon!