19

Welcome to the end of the 19th week: it's greasy, covered with hair, and peeing in its own pool.

During this past week, the fetus developed a white, fatty, protective coating called vernix and a fine hair called lanugo. Its kidneys are developed enough to make urine, which gets excreted into the amniotic sac.

Its hearing is well-developed enough to start to recognize voices, so Pete often talks to it in both his puppy voice and his normal voice. I am now used to him talking to my stomach. It's making conscious movements because the motor neurons are hooking up, which means it is already developing bad habits like sucking its thumb. Luckily, it has no teeth to screw up with this behavior.

It's just generally squirming, and I feel like I have swallowed a water balloon. A water balloon that has a solid treat in the middle that you only get when you break it. Like an aqua pinata.

I hope there are no children with sticks at the end of this party.