Your baby is about 7.6 inches long and weighs about 12.3 ounces. Your baby's muscles are developing and becoming stronger week by week. During week 22 of pregnancy, your baby will respond regularly to sound, rhythm, and melody. The sounds that your baby hears in your womb will soothe him or her after birth.
At this point in your pregnancy, your baby's brain and nerve endings are formed just enough so that the baby can feel touch. Other developments include the eyelids and eyebrows becoming well developed, the fingernails are completely formed, and taste buds have started to form on your baby’s tongue
At this stage in my pregnancy I'm feeling pretty good apart from a few aches and pains in my back and behind my knees but I have lots more energy than I did in the first trimester. I have a belly now but it's not too big just yet - I can still see my feet & it's not in the way. I feel pregnant when I see my belly getting bigger, it seems to be slowly growing. Sometimes I have had to take a reality check that I'm really going to have a baby in four months, it blows me away but I'm excited about meeting our little one, wonder what he or she will look like and how we will handle this new part of our lives. I woke up the other morning feeling baby kicking and they were stronger than I had felt before, I grabbed Paul's hand and put it on my belly so he could feel them too. I find our baby is most active in the mornings and late at night when I am lying still I can feel movement and little kicks. I haven't bought much stuff for bubs arrival just yet as I'm just waiting till we get settled in a new place which I hope is very soon. I want to make an effort to update this journal on a more regular basis as things change so subtly and quickly and I want to be able to look back and know how I was feeling. I bought some Johnny Cash the other day as I have been meaning to for quite some time, that voice.. I really want to buy some Fiona Apple as well really into her right now.
