We’ll still call little Pistachio little Pistachio this week, but as you may have read Amanda and I have been busy narrowing down names, so perhaps by next week we’ll use a real name!  We also no longer need to refer to the baby with the gender-neutral “it” as we can now use “she” and “her”.  How exciting!

This week our baby girl is described as being about the size of a chicken breast.  Amanda and I both cut up some chicken breasts with the dinner we ate at Reel Cafe the other day, so not only do we have a recent and atactile memory of the size of our baby, but a reference like that also makes me feel a little gross about having eaten it.  I’m sure I’ll get over it.

Our little girl is also yawning, which we saw on the ultrasound on Friday, and hiccupping.  She’s also developed fingerprints!

Amanda should be able to feel her moving around now too, and when I went to kiss Amanda good night she said she could in fact feel movements.  Not long ago she said she thought she could feel something, but she didn’t sound uncertain tonight.  That’s so profound.  I laid my head on her stomach when she said that, just wishing I could feel something.  I suppose our girl will be kicking and punching soon enough though.