Week 22 Ava's getting Bigger!!!

I Got this picture off of the same website as the updates I post!!! They have a new one each week!!! I will post them!!!

Ava's development in pregnancy week 22:

Ava's in the fifth month The grow must go on! No wonder you’re getting so big, you’re now housing a wonder-baby who weighs nearly a pound and measures nearly a foot in length. Their perfect little pancreas is now further developed and they’ve also started producing their own hormones! Your baby's future in the circus as a world-famous tight-rope-walker is secure: their inner ear is now developed to the point that they have their own sense of balance. Lucky for your little explorer, balance also promotes physical dexterity, which has them actively feeling out their surroundings where skin, body parts, and the resident umbilical cord are the big sensory experiences. Your foot-long baby, is looking a bit like an over sized raisin right now as more and more wrinkles are showing up each week. Not to worry, all that excessive wrinkling is just their skin’s way of planning ahead for the time when they’ll start piling on that irresistible baby chub.

Ava has also become somewhat of a gymnast! It feels like she is doing about 10 flips a second! And using my tummy as a push off! Des is able to feel it too! she is kicking harder and harder every day! It is so amazing!!!

Today we have a doctors appointment I also am going to ask if we can hear her heart beat!! If they don't already check it! I read that we would be able to hear it if we had a normal stethoscope and just put it to my belly! I am unsure about that but I am going to ask the doctor about that today!

Oh I also meant to post the Playpen (that is what they were called when i was a kid now they are called Play yards) and the stroller/ car seat picture up here! This is the colors we like because we feel like it is a good versatile color and it will not be used in her room so its OK if it is not a girlie color! plus it will hide anything she or we could get on it! It is very sturdy and easy to set up and take down and it is not very heavy! We love it!!!

Update From the Doctor:

Ava's heartbeat is perfect and just what it needs to be! We got to hear her heart! That is so awesome! I am 22 weeks and 1 day!!! the countdown in by weeks right now but we are fast approaching counting down the days!!! We can't wait!