Week 11

Baby size: 1.61 inches
Baby weight: 7g
Fruit equivalent: lime
What’s growing this month:

·         Tiny fingernails are now developing and will continue to grow during the next several months

·         She may start hiccupping now that her diaphragm is forming

·         Baby’s ears are assuming their proper place

·         Baby is busy moving arms and legs

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Week 10....30 more weeks to go!!!

Baby size: 1.22 inches
Baby weight: 4 grams
Fruit equivalent: a Prune
What’s growing this month:

·         Baby will start taking practice breaths of the amniotic fluid

·         Baby’s limbs can bend now: hands are flexed at the wrist; arms can bend at the elbows

·         Hair is starting to sprout

·         She may be able to hear because the inner workings of the ear are complete

·         Kidneys are producing urine

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Week 9

Baby size: 0.9 inches

Baby weight: 2 grams

Fruit equivalent: a cherry
What’s growing this month:

• All of baby's limbs are visible
• Baby's heart has divided into four chambers
• Tiny teeth start to form
• Baby's eyes are fully formed, but fused shut until about week 27
• Cartilage and bones begin to form
• Last week of being an embryo

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The Doctor's Appointment...

So we found out we were pregnant on Jan 6 and I had my first doctor's appointment 26 days later on Feb 1. Let me tell you, it was a LOOONNNGGGGGG 26 days. I remember during the first week I had a panic attack that I may have a miscarriage after reading post of women that had and I freaked out. I cried to my husband but he was so tired that he wasn't very consoling. Then at the end of my 6th week/beginning of 7th week was when NAUSEA began to show its ugly face. Prior to that, I was like wow being pregnant is easy and I guess I'm one of the lucky few. Too bad I didn't knock on wood, because NAUSEA showed up without a warning. One morning, I just felt sick after eating and it lingered all day long. During that same time, my appetite changed and foods didn't taste the same or even sound good in my mind. I'm battling NAUSEA now but when I drink lemon water it helps a lot. Crackers definitely didn't do it for me...Idk if it was because its so salty and neither did ginger ale...but LEMON WATER is definitely the trick. So fast forward to Feb 1 at 1pm...

Week 8

Hubby was adamant about not getting up from the couch, so he zoomed in to take the photo. Please excuse any kind of blurriness :)

Baby size: .63 inches
Baby weight: .04 ounce
Fruit equivalent: raspberry
What’s growing this month:

·         Eyelids are developing

·         Hands and feet have developed from the arm and legs buds

·         Neural pathways are starting to develop at a rapid pace

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