19 weeks

You're halfway there! The top of your uterus now reaches your belly button and will grow about a centimetre per week. The fetus measures around 15 centimetres long from crown to rump and weighs about 240 grams.
She has started to swallow amniotic fluid, and her kidneys continue to make urine. Hair on the scalp is sprouting.
Sensory development reaches its peak this week. The nerve cells serving each of the senses -- taste, smell, hearing, seeing, and touch -- are now developing in their specialised areas of the brain. Nerve cell production slows down as existing nerve cells grow larger and make more complex connections. If you're carrying a baby girl, she already has roughly six million eggs in her ovaries. By the time she's born, she'll have about one million.
You no doubt feel the kicking and somersaulting of your growing baby. At times, she may be so mobile that you can't sleep. The next ten weeks or so will be your baby's busiest and most active time, until the womb gets too crowded.

Read more: http://www.babycenter.com.au/pregnancy/fetaldevelopment/19weeks/#ixzz1EZnSdAej

Blargh, what a week! Last Monday my throat started to itch and by the time I woke up on Tuesday my nose my running and my head was stuffy and because I could, I took a sick day (something that apparently you can't do once the baby arrives!).

I still have a sore throat but am feeling a lot better.

Another health related thing going on at the moment is this random thing with my skin. It's suddenly been very itchy! With very small bumps appears on my arms (that you can only really see up close or in bright lights). And here is my theory as to what it is.

When I was young doctors put me on a drug for arthritis called Naproxyn, which resulted in an allergic reaction called psuedoporphyria, which is (to my understanding) an allergy that makes me super-sensitive to the sun.
I think something is triggering my skin to behave in the same way and it's resulted in me sitting on the couch with one, two, three... five things of moisturizing cream/oil. Sooo itchy!

One thing taking my mind of the itching is our 20 week scan which is happening at the end of the week! All going well I should be able to post up the gender of our little bub next week!

After we find out the gender we plan to do a little bit of shopping on the weekend!

This is the pram that I want! I want it because it's so HIGH that it'll hopefully save my back a bit with lifting!

One last thing... today we got to hear bubs heart rate (I went to the GP to get my referral for the scan) and it was 152, so according to the heart way theory I may be announcing that it's a girl?