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.