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.
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Margaret said she was ill through out her whole pregnancy with Jon...sorry.
My mom's theory on boy or girl: if you don't look like you are pregnant from the back then you are having a boy.
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