Week 23

Turn on the radio and sway to the music. With her sense of movement well developed by now, your baby can feel you dance. And now that she's more than 11 inches long and weighs just over a pound (about as much as a large mango), you may be able to see her squirm underneath your clothes. Blood vessels in her lungs are developing to prepare for breathing, and the sounds that your baby's increasingly keen ears pick up are preparing her for entry into the outside world. Loud noises that become familiar now - such as your dog barking or the roar of the vacuum cleaner - probably won't faze her when she hears them outside the womb.

(babycenter.com)

Derek and I went to "Babies-R-Us" today for the very first time. What an awesome place that is! We spent over an hour looking at strollers, car seats, traveling systems, cribs and other miscellaneous items... We've picked out several top choices, but have yet to make final decisions in any of those topics - we would like to get some input from our friends/relatives/others who have babies first before we buy the big stuff. The reviews we've seen say the items are good, but we still need to do some more research. We want to make the most out of our purchase without spending... oh, $1000 on a stroller. Seriously, people do that. I could definitely get carried away in there though, there were so many cute things! We didn't even go into the clothing section. As much as I may want to, we really can't buy much of anything in that area since we won't know Baby's gender until we deliver. But there are just so many cute dresses and little boy outfits out there!!!! Derek saw baby rainboots with Firefighters on them (too precious). If we have a boy, I guess I know what he'll wear when he's a toddler and it's raining outside!

Other than that, we didn't do much else this weekend. It went by far too quickly though. Today was a relatively slow kicking day for Baby, maybe it was tired or something. Derek brought his stethoscope into our apartment and we tried to listen to see if we could hear it moving around, or hear a heartbeat or anything, but we couldn't. Apparently when I'm further along, Derek should be able to put his head to my belly and actually hear Baby's heartbeat. That's just crazy to me!

I guess I'll need to dance around the apartment tomorrow to get Baby moving. We'll put on some upbeat stuff, or maybe some country and we could two-step :) Sounds like fun to me.