As of this week, they say to "turn on the radio and sway to the music." With his sense of movement well developed by now, Ryder can feel me dance. I actually put on some music and danced around the house one day while I held onto my tummy. Our first mommy/son dance :)
And now that he's more than 11 inches long and weighs just over a pound (about as much as a large mango), I have been able to see him squirm underneath my clothes. I laid on the couch one day and felt some kicks, so I got out my phone and took a little video :) It's hard to see the kicks since they aren't really close together and you kind of have to know where on my stomach to watch, but it's fun to see my tummy twitch when he kicks :)
In other news, blood vessels in Ryder's lungs are developing to prepare for breathing, and the sounds that his increasingly keen ears pick up are preparing him for entry into the outside world. Loud noises that become familiar now — such as the dogs barking or the roar of the vacuum cleaner — probably won't faze him when he hears them outside the womb.
Here is what Ryder might be looking like these days:
And here I am at 23 weeks:
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