Welcome to the SECOND TRIMESTER!!

Your pregnancy: 14 weeks

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How your baby's growing: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.

So we're hoping the the start of second tri means more energy and less feeling ill. Today was a strange day. I got up, sat on the couch feeling pretty good, then from out of now where i started dry heaving...ON THE COUCH!! I had to run to the bathroom and just barely made it. So i got done, popped a Zofran, ate a bagel and i'm fine now. Very strange way to start the morning! Our next appt isn't till the end of March, On the 26th. Then the next one in April we'll get to see (hopefully) what's cookin in there...a boy or girl!! Since the heartrate was so high...i'm thinkin girl. Any guesses?

New things for us not baby related, we got ourselves a new laptop! This thing is slick!! So much faster than our old computer!! I still have to take stuff off the old computer and put it on this one. So that is a fun task i am not looking forward to! So now i am going to try to run some errands since i feel pretty good.

13 Weeks

Your pregnancy: 13 weeks
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How your baby's growing: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.

So i have been taking the ginger pills and they seem to be helping! I feel a little tired, but no nausea! It's been a nice day and a half! I went out and visited my friend Tonya and her family last night. Was nice to get out of the house and visit with people. They have a 7 months old daugther, Allyson; who is super cute! Hopefully i can get motivated to start working on the office again. Now it's off to find lunch!

So cool!

Today was our 12 week check up, we went three weeks after our last one just so we could find the heartbeat. So let me fill you in on the week's events.
After four good days of no throwing up, my body decided that enough was enough and sent me back to the porcelain god. Yes, i haven't been able to hold down anything for the past 3 days. I have lost 5 1/2 lbs in three weeks. Normal i guess for the first tri, but still quite alarming. At least to me, my doctor didn't seem too worried. So i am trying out the ginger pills with the ok from my doctor and if those don't work, i have a prescription for Zofran. So hopefully since i am heading into my second tri all this will just dissappear!
So on to the more exciting stuff, we got to hear the heartbeat!!! Doc said it was about 160 beats a min. It was a very cool, very fast whooshing sound. So our next appt is in 5 weeks, at the end of March, and then our big one is in April and hopefully we'll get a picture then!
More to come!

12 Weeks

Well, we have made it to 12 weeks! One more week and it's the second trimester!Yesterday was the first day my nausea wasn't too bad. I was having pickle cravings all day, so i had to run to Cub at lunch and i got a jar of pickles, mashed potatoes, and two cake donuts! Yummy! So since i was feeling a bit more like my old self, we decided to go out and do somethings. We ran to USA baby and looked at cribs. Got a few ideas of the style we like so once we get the office cleaned out(which is what i am supposed to be doing today, but i'm not really motivated) we can clean the carpets, paint(once we find out the sex of the baby) and get everything ready! Now i just have to get rid of these headaches! Really bad ones! Here's where we are developmentally!

How your baby's growing:

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!

Sorry i have been a bit "under the weather" not flu sick, but lots of morning sickness. Morning/noon/ night sickness. I really hope this starts to subside soon so i can enjoy this pregnancy. The headaches are quite unbearable!


This is where we are!




How your baby's growing: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.

10 Weeks

Your pregnancy: 10 weeks (as of Saturday January 31st)
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How your baby's growing:Though he's barely the size of a kumquat — a little over an inch or so long, crown to bottom — and weighs less than a quarter of an ounce, your baby has now completed the most critical portion of his development. This is the beginning of the so-called fetal period, a time when the tissues and organs in his body rapidly grow and mature.He's swallowing fluid and kicking up a storm. Vital organs — including his kidneys, intestines, brain, and liver (now making red blood cells in place of the disappearing yolk sac) — are in place and starting to function, though they'll continue to develop throughout your pregnancy.If you could take a peek inside your womb, you'd spot minute details, like tiny nails forming on fingers and toes (no more webbing) and peach-fuzz hair beginning to grow on tender skin.In other developments: Your baby's limbs can bend now. His hands are flexed at the wrist and meet over his heart, and his feet may be long enough to meet in front of his body. The outline of his spine is clearly visible through translucent skin, and spinal nerves are beginning to stretch out from his spinal cord. Your baby's forehead temporarily bulges with his developing brain and sits very high on his head, which measures half the length of his body. From crown to rump, he's about 1 1/4 inches long. In the coming weeks, your baby will again double in size — to nearly 3 inches.