Ladies and Gentleman...We Have Movement!!!

Megan is 23 weeks today and began feeling movement yesterday while she was at work. At first we believed it was just gas but as it happened more frequently and consistently, we referred to our myriad of baby books to determine that baby Baird was kicking around! Megan felt like he was using her bladder as a punching bag! Baby is roughly a pound now!!! He is approximately eight inches long and has finger and toe nails. It has been found that fetal heart rates slow down while a mother is talking, proving that not only does he love momma Meg's voice but that it is soothing to him as well. According to one of our books his skin is a bit saggy(skin grows faster than fat) and there is not much fat developing right now, but beginning this week he'll start packing on the pounds! He will be about double the weight that he is now, so approximately two pounds! Megan is feeling very well overall, aside from some back pain she is having. We are looking into a pregnancy "belt" that should help support her expanding uterus and the ligaments that are attached to it. Everything is progressing as expected and we have an OB appointment a week from Wednesday with out doctor, Sharon Maturo. We feel blessed to have such a wonderful and caring doctor to help and support us through our first pregnancy. We have also been calling around day cares and will be setting up visits with them to talk and see how they operate so we can find a suitable place for our son to be while we are unable to be with him :(

Interesting fact-
A brown eyed couple can have a blue eyed child and a blue eyed couple a brown eyed child. Not one gene is responsible for eye or hair color. Most human traits are polygenic - a trait that is determined by more than one gene. Eye and hair color is a combination of many genes acting in a "layering" effect.