14 Weeks!

Im a day ahead of myself put wanted to get some pictures up from my ultrasound yesterday :)  It was my first abdominal ultrasound and Owie!!! those things hurt!  Well maybe if my tech wouldn't have put both hands on the doppler and proceeded to push all of her weight into it to get the baby to move it would've been a more enjoyable event!  Baby is doing well, kicking and punching its arms it even looked like it was talking but was probably just swallowing and baby still has a good strong heartbeat at 152.  The tech wouldn't even take a look "down below" to guess at gender which combined with her torture device called a doppler made me dislike her :)  Anywho, yay 2nd trimester, finally!!!  Now I have to wait until October 12th for my next ultrasound to find out gender...it seems so impossibly far away!

14 week update - Lemon!

This week's big developments: Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his thumb! Thanks to brain impulses, his facial muscles are getting a workout as his tiny features form one expression after another. His kidneys are producing urine, which he releases into the amniotic fluid around him — a process he'll keep up until birth. He can grasp, too, and if you're having an ultrasound now, you may even catch him sucking his thumb.
In other news: Your baby's stretching out. From head to bottom, he measures 3 1/2 inches — about the size of a lemon — and he weighs 1 1/2 ounces. His body's growing faster than his head, which now sits upon a more distinct neck. By the end of this week, his arms will have grown to a length that's in proportion to the rest of his body. (His legs still have some lengthening to do.) He's starting to develop an ultra-fine, downy covering of hair, called lanugo, all over his body. Your baby's liver starts making bile this week — a sign that it's doing its job right — and his spleen starts helping in the production of red blood cells. Though you can't feel his tiny punches and kicks yet, your little pugilist's hands and feet (which now measure about 1/2 inch long) are more flexible and active.



13 Weeks!

13 weeks! Yay!  This past week has gone by pretty quickly.  I "released" the news at work as there were some rumors already flying around.  Its great that everyone knows but now I'm a bit more nervous so I cannot wait until my next appointment this coming Wednesday!  Its my Nuchal Testing scan where they test for a couple of genetic disorders (downs, etc) so while I'm really excited to have a longer ultrasound and hopefully some great pictures to share (and hopefully a gender guess :)) its a little daunting to think I could find out something might be wrong with this babe.  I only have positive thoughts though so hopefully everything is great!

13 week update  - Peach!
Fingerprints have formed on your baby's tiny fingertips, her veins and organs are clearly visible through her still-thin skin, and her body is starting to catch up with her head — which makes up just a third of her body size now. If you're having a girl, she now has more than 2 million eggs in her ovaries. Your baby is almost 3 inches long (the size of a medium shrimp) and weighs nearly an ounce.

12 Weeks!

Well I officially hit the coveted 12 week mark! yay!  And after such a great ultrasound at almost 12 weeks Im finally feeling a bit better about this pregnancy!  We had a friends wedding reception this weekend and I broke the news to my close girlfriends so slowly more and more people are finding out :)

12 week update - Plum!
The most dramatic development this week: reflexes. Your baby's fingers will soon begin to open and close, his toes will curl, his eye muscles will clench, and his mouth will make sucking movements. In fact, if you prod your abdomen, your baby will squirm in response, although you won't be able to feel it. His intestines, which have grown so fast that they protrude into the umbilical cord, will start to move into his abdominal cavity about now, and his kidneys will begin excreting urine into his bladder.
Meanwhile, nerve cells are multiplying rapidly, and in your baby's brain, synapses are forming furiously. His face looks unquestionably human: His eyes have moved from the sides to the front of his head, and his ears are right where they should be. From crown to rump, your baby-to-be is just over 2 inches long (about the size of a lime) and weighs half an ounce.

11 Weeks!

11 weeks! Wow time is going both slow and fast!  It seems like it takes forever to get to the next friday where I increase a week but when I look big picture Im almost 3 months already!  Im feeling good, no spotting since 9 weeks...yay!!!  Im having anxiety though with having such a big break in between appts (9 weeks to 13.5 weeks), I bought a doppler for at home but haven't had luck finding the babies heartbeat yet.  I might call the doctor sometime this week or next and just see if they can get the heartbeat for me so I can have a little reassurance...ha my doctor is going to LOVE me! :)

Update - I caved and called and scheduled a day for me to come in and try to hear the babies heartbeat at the Drs.  I went in on Wednesday August 10th, I was 11 wks 5 days.  After 2 nurses failed at finding the heartbeat via the doppler I was squeezed in to get an ultrasound just to make sure everything was ok.  Baby was bouncing around and shaking its booty on the screen so that was reassuring.  Heartbeat was a good strong 162 which is excellent for 12 weeks.  I got a couple of photos as well...The front view of the face is kinda scary...cross between skeletor and a transformers mask, haha!  Its crazy to see how much development has happened in just about 3 weeks since my last ultrasound!  Baby has full legs and arms, and used those arms to have them constantly infront of its face!  The babe was also "sitting" with its legs straight out which is why no legs show up in the face picture :)

11 week update - Fig!
Your baby, just over 1 1/2 inches long and about the size of a fig, is now almost fully formed. Her hands will soon open and close into fists, tiny tooth buds are beginning to appear under her gums, and some of her bones are beginning to harden.
She's already busy kicking and stretching, and her tiny movements are so effortless they look like water ballet. These movements will become more frequent as her body grows and becomes more developed and functional. You won't feel your baby's acrobatics for another month or two — nor will you notice the hiccupping that may be happening now that her diaphragm is forming.