23 weeks pregnant • Pregnancy calendar •

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There are 114 days until your due date on December 15, 2008.
You are 166 days pregnant.
You are 5.4 months pregnant.
You are in your 6th month of pregnancy.
Your 1st trimester: March 10, 2008 to June 08, 2008. (0 - 12 weeks)
Your 2nd trimester: June 09, 2008 to September 21, 2008. (13 - 27 weeks)
Your 3rd trimester: September 22, 2008 to December 15, 2008. (28 - 40 weeks)

This week your baby's length, from crown-to-rump, is approximately 8 inches! Your growing baby has finally reached one pound. Your baby is about the size of a small baby doll and looks very human. The baby's face and body look similar to that of a newborn at this time. Your uterus can be found about 1.5 inches above your navel. Your total weight gain should be approximately 15 pounds at this time.

You might notice some Braxton-Hicks contractions around this time. These contractions are not regular and they should not be painful. Braxton-Hicks contractions prepare your body for the upcoming labor and they will get stronger as your pregnancy progresses. You might be able to feel the contractions if you put your hand on your abdomen and your baby can probably feel the uterus gripping and massaging her. It will not harm your baby, so there is no need for concern.

Fat is still being deposited at a rapid rate, but your baby still looks red and wrinkled. Skin is being produced at a higher rate than the fat is, so the skin hangs loosely. Your baby looks red because the skin is losing its transparency and pigment is beginning to form. You should be feeling your baby moving quite a bit throughout the day as she will kick and punch the uterus walls. Babies also run their hands along the umbilical cord and touch their body parts while they are in the womb.

Your baby now can suck her thumb for real, where she was just sticking it in her mouth. Your baby will continue to swallow amniotic fluid and recycle it as urine. The liquids and sugars that the baby retracts from the fluid is a supplement to the nutrients that the placenta delivers. You might be able to feel small `jumps` inside of you when your baby gets the hiccups from swallowing fluid. The pancreas is developing and it will responsible for insulin production, to help break down sugars.

Oily fish in your diet could help boost your baby's health. (Women who eat oily fish while pregnant have children with better visual development, a major study at Bristol University suggests.)

As the baby continues to grow, it has less space to move around in the uterus. Bones, muscles and organs are growing steadily.

Comments on week 23

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murjani - 2 minutes ago
Its this amazingly awesome yogart place that u can add like fresh fruit and whatevers u like. I had oreos and fresh strawberries. It was heavenly! Lol its kindve a fad here bc whenever u go u see some celebrity. I just might be there everynight bc its that good.

lexi83 - 19 minutes ago
what is a pinkberry?

murjani - 27 minutes ago
Ok so I'm not a fad queen but I just had pinkberry today and I just abt ate my hand off! Its sooo good and refreshing! Since my thighs are rubbing and I'm so hot all the time it was supernice to have it! Love. It. I'm from 22 but the air was too thick over there right now. Lol

zenmarmot - 1 hours ago
OOoo how about meatloaf rolls. MMMM

zenmarmot - 1 hours ago
I have such a hard time keeping up with ya'll. I go to work and the sh*t hits the fan. LOL

mommylove3 - 1 hours ago
Ok..I am 22 weeks but apparently there are issues there..so we went to eat at a japanese place...I got shrimp and chicken and I was eating the shrimp and nothing out of the ordinary and after a few pieces I put one in my mouth and it had spoiled taste! You know how something smells when it is spoiled??? That smell is what it tasted like...So like a big dummy I was too embarrassed to spit it in my napkin, so I suffered through it and swallowed it. But now it's like what if that hurts my baby??? But I have been feeling him move this evening. I probably won't eat shrimp again...EVER

haileyc - 1 hours ago
Angie - I suck at making all food. My step-mom made the meatloaf and froze it... I just defrost and bake. But I made the mashed potatoes... that's one of the only things my mom taught me to make. Well, I'm off for tonight. Talk to you girls manana!

amandav81 - 1.2 hours ago
Geez. Looks like you ladies had it out today over nothing...LOL, ALL I have to say is Go TEAM KELLI!!! Sucks people cant just log off of here if they dont like whats being said...Come on people, we are all grown women who are about to have babies here in the next few months..GROW UP..please for the sake of your babies!!

ANG- - 1.2 hours ago
LOL how sad is that. I suck at cooking american but MEXICAN im da shiznit.. Nite ladies IM OFF!! luv ya all (ok well not ALL of you but most)

Kelli, aka Trouble!! - 1.3 hours ago
ANG..LOL...meatloaf is sort of a kitchen sink sort of deal!!! In other words...throw in whatever, including the kitchen sink???LOL

mine is burger, with italian bread crumbs, an egg or 2, spices (whatever you really want there), ketchup (it's a running theme in my cooking,LOL), onion, green pepper if you like it etc...mush it all together form a loaf in a pan, stick it in the oven at 350 for about 45 mins or so, depending on how thick your loaf is!!! That's it!!!:)

ANG- - 1.4 hours ago
Its almost 8 here....which is good because thats when I get off =)

Stacy Jo (litsey7) - 1.4 hours ago
well its almost 11pm so i guess ill get to bed now!

Stacy Jo (litsey7) - 1.4 hours ago
ur welcome

ANG- - 1.5 hours ago
Thanks Stacy =)

Stacy Jo (litsey7) - 1.6 hours ago
Ang- i just mix hamburger with spices and cheese put a jar of spegetti sauce over it after i make it in like a loaf type thing in a roaster. I add about 4 cups of water bake it at 375 for an hour. then i put flour in the water part and mix it up good for the gravy and bake it another 30 min. my kids love it! hey and I got that recipe off of that movie bye bye love years ago! I always use to use tomatoe sauce. then I heard them say they used ragu as thier secret sauce lol. my kids love it. I think ill make it tommorrow! but i use the green peppers and mushroom kind it is soooo good!

ANG- - 1.7 hours ago
um yeah..so i cant cook 'american' food...so I know this is suppose to be sooooo easy to make...but how the heck do you make meatloaf? Ive heard so many different things from ketchup to bbq sauce....

Kelli, aka Trouble!! - 1.8 hours ago
LOL @ Sara about myspace and facebook...I also have both!!! Do you think it has anything to do with being ambedextrous again???LOL

OH, OH...and again...I resemble that remark....I is a Redneck..and dayum proud of it too!!!:P Actually it's just a family thing...I was the first generation to be born in 'yankee' country.LOL I'm the outsider in my fam!!

arianna - 2 hours ago
You guys are too funny. I didn't even realize it was bacon at first. What a background

ANG- - 2 hours ago
middle class maybe??? hmmmm

sara-in-oregon - 2.1 hours ago
@ ANG - Oh the conundrum! The studies didn't address that possibility. :)

Stacy Jo (litsey7) - 2.1 hours ago
lol! Myspace is evil! My daughter went to check her site and there it was I was like omg!!!!!!! and to be honest i like my yahoo better then face book. but i rarely go on either one...lol i keep forgettin all my passwords anyway

Desiree the DGrrl - 2.1 hours ago
sara...ur too funny, I guess I'm just cool like that...don't have a facebook, and have proven myself a myspace nut! but the factoid is that they made the daily login page COVERED in bacon!

ANG- - 2.1 hours ago
Sara-What if you have both?

sara-in-oregon - 2.1 hours ago
Re: Myspace & Bacon
Hey, haven't you girls read about the class distinctions between various social networking sites?

There's research 'proving' that lower class people use myspace while more educated people use facebook.

LOL! I guess I'm just not redneck enough or something... I don't have a myspace and I don't get to see the bacon!

Desiree the DGrrl - 2.1 hours ago
SWEET Stacey...NOW u know what i mean!...evil myspace people!!!...I had to fight myself off my husbands pepper bacon ALLLL day because of that background

Stacy Jo (litsey7) - 2.2 hours ago
omg! I just went over to the login page on myspace and totally noticed that dagon bacon!!!!!!! lmao- that is to funny

Stacy Jo (litsey7) - 2.2 hours ago
des- you go girl!!!!!

Desiree the DGrrl - 2.2 hours ago
I managed to complete my domestic duties today through all the chaos and crap going on in here...and I'm so glad I did,........my hubby came home and said HE APPRECIATES ME SO MUCH!....I'm a bag of sap right now, but,...have to share, He gave me a bunch of money to go Maternity shopping tommorow......woo-hoo,...old-navy here I come!...he's so thoughtful. sorry I'm unusually mushed out right now, it just feel so good to be appreciated

sara-in-oregon - 2.3 hours ago
@ Desiree - I noticed that! But I have to say, I thought it was pretty funny too :)

Desiree the DGrrl - 2.4 hours ago
HA!!!HA!! they left mine up in the 22 week, I'm kind of scratching my head, but maybe they thought it was funny too...whatevs

krissynj - 2.6 hours ago
Darn....I missed so much. What happened in here? I was so busy today that I couldn't log on and I was trying to go back to where I left off (6 pages ago) and couldn't understand anything. Did any comments get deleted? I'm not understanding what's going on and really....PPL IN HERE HAVE TO STOP DELETING OTHERS!!! AND MOST OF ALL ....STOP GOING AFTER KELLI!!! If they don't like the group, they can step out. This is really getting annoying now!!!!!

sara-in-oregon - 2.7 hours ago
@ stacy jo - at least fingernails are nutritious and low fat! LOL.

Stacy Jo (litsey7) - 2.8 hours ago
nite liz!!!!!!!

Stacy Jo (litsey7) - 2.8 hours ago
i think thats why it is so hard to stop. i bite my nails when I try to go from hr to hr in not havin one. so in a sense I am making new bad habbits on top of my old ones lol!

Liz3 - 2.9 hours ago
I am going to bed. my back hurts and I had to take a pain pill which I didnt want to but my excersizes jsut werent doing the trick.. So I am bout to pass out... Good night to all my Girls!!!!!

sara-in-oregon - 2.9 hours ago
@ Stacy Jo - Never having been a smoker myself, I'm no authority on the subject... but they say that's why it's so difficult to kick the habit. All the things you associate with smoking, all those little routines, foods, people and places you associate with smoking - you have to break every single one. So in essence it's like you're having to give up dozens of bad habits and not just one.

Liz3 - 3 hours ago
is it just me or does the baby pic in the top right have wierd looking hands?? I know they are still gowing etc but still... odd.. lol hahaha sorry getting sleepy here..

haileyc - 3 hours ago
OK... I'm making my new favorite dinner! Meatloaf with real mashed potatoes and gravy!! I can't wait for it to be done... it smells delicious!

Girlygirlinnc - 3 hours ago
Hailey...was it you who made cinnamon rolls and ate all but 2 the other day? I just bought some and am getting ready to devour them!

Stacy Jo (litsey7) - 3 hours ago
sara- its wierd. I stopped drinkin it for like 2 months but craved it so bad and decaf oh gosh I just new the difference. I have a cup a day vs. a pot like before pregnancy. And for all the people who use to smoke or still do I cant help it there is nothing like a cig with a hot cup of coffee! I was at a pack a day and now I am at less then half a pack. its like with my coffee and after a meal or if I have just had such a horrible day..... after all its like I am a single mom with my husband being out of town since March on work. I guess you can call me a weak person..

haileyc - 3.1 hours ago
Sara, one of mine got deleted too... I wasn't being rude or bullying. I think that the moderator just pretty much wiped out everything that was in between...

ANG- - 3.1 hours ago
Sara-you offend me everyday. I mean really. How rude of you to always give us useful info.... lol jk ...im so hungry..I wish I could eat

sara-in-oregon - 3.1 hours ago
@ Stacy Jo - Oh, I'm so envious that you can still drink coffee... I love it and I want to but every time I go within 3 feet of the coffee pot I puke. :(

sara-in-oregon - 3.2 hours ago
I just have to say... Why were my comments deleted? & Who did I offend?

I wasn't bullying anyone... my comment about people doing research, deciding acceptable risks and making choices was meant to help people understand that we all have somewhat different priorities and we won't all make the same decisions regarding what's safe and what's not.

Then I said what I chose to do regarding hair dye... I wasn't saying that everyone should do as I do.

Liz3 - 3.2 hours ago
Justine: wait wait wait... so her spaghetti is noodles and tomatoes??? um yeah that seems more like a pasta salad.. lol... I like it all spicy too.. I have been eating Texas Pete on everything... ugh.. LOL

Stacy Jo (litsey7) - 3.2 hours ago
sara- I agree with you about kelli getting deleted. when i told everyone on here that I am a smoker and have not stopped because I frankly enjoy it I got alot of rude and nasty comments. I didnt have anyone deleted. Then i said i still drink coffee same thing. no rude comments sent from my end. yes i have cut back on the cigs and the coffee and when i announced that got some good and still rude such as WELL YOU REALLY DONT CARE ABOUT YOUR BABY IF YOU SMOKE OR PUMP URSELF FULL OF CAFFINE! well i didnt go snitch or anything because those are everyones opinions. I know I can get cancer and yes i know its not good for the baby, but in my eyes its better I stay stress free....... i have done this with all my kids and they were 10,9,9 and 7 lbs at birth a perfectly healthy! Plus everyone in my family who has stopped smoking has gotten cancer within 3-5 years later. Noone in my family who smokes has ever gotten it. Just an example everyone lives thier own way, has thier own way of parenting and has thier own opinions.....thats just the way it is! why have people deleted for thier opinions and views. An opinion is not bullying!

ANG- - 3.3 hours ago
Im making carne con chile rojo for dinner tonight. Im so hungry I wish it could just be ready when I got home but NO. My guy sucks at cooking so I think I'll just wait

justine - 3.5 hours ago
well im making spaghetti with chipotle so its nice and spicy!! yummy!!ill be surprised if hubby eats it since he hates 'american' spaghetti(yeah i realize its italian shut up) because his mom makes it with just tomatoes thats it, no sauce no meat!! its not bad but its definately not spaghetti. so i thought id try my friends moms spicy edition and see how that goes.

sara-in-oregon - 3.5 hours ago
Re: Deleting people, deleting histories, etc.
The whole deletion thing is really weird to me... I understand having a moderator who steps in to calm down the discussions, but I don't understand deleting people's profiles and old comments, etc.

It's like the whole Olympic 14 year old gymnast & google.cn coverup. (that's google china)

Although I personally rather like BardoM and Newlifehopes, I think it was pretty unfair that Kelli got deleted and they didn't.

Of course it's easy for me to be sort of neutral on the subject cause I've got a huge ego and y'all would be hard pressed to find something that would seriously shock or offend me. :)

Liz3 - 3.6 hours ago
I go back over and read the comments. and i completely understand why Kelli is so upset! For crying out loud. Someone asks a simple question abt Hair dye and they go off on their high horse about everything around... I agree it also upsets me very much....

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