Week 15

Baby size: 4 inches
Baby weight: 70 grams (2.5 oz)
Fruit equivalent: Apple
What’s growing this month:

·         Her legs are growing longer than her arms now and she can move all her joints and limbs

·         She can sense light

·         She’s forming taste buds

·         Hair is sprouting on top of his head and his eyebrows have begun to fill in

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Deep longing for love...random thoughts

Last night was a pretty random night. I decided to go through my journals that dated as far back as 1999 and up to I was a senior in High School. After reading several excerpts, I quickly realized my deep longing for love. Every entry that I read was centered around a boy. I think saying that I was simply “boy crazy” would not give the full picture as to why my world was centered around boys, so I won’t use that term. But one thing I know for fact, is my deep longing for love. As I read my journals last night, I remembered how I always felt like a part of me was missing. I’m not sure why I felt that way but I think that feeling also rooted in the longing to be loved. So as I read these journal entries, I became that little girl/teenage girl all over again because I remember those feelings of hurt and disappointment. Now that I’m pregnant, I think a lot about the mother that I want to be. 

Week 14...2nd Trimester!!!

Baby size: 3.42 inches
Baby weight: 43 grams
Fruit equivalent: Lemon
What’s growing this month:

·         Lanugo(fine hair) is starting to appear over the body

·         Baby can now squint, frown, and grimace

·         Baby’s liver starts to make bile this week (meconium)

·         Baby is starting to develop the ability to move his eyes, although eyes are fused shut until after 27 weeks

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13 weeks...last week of my 1st Trimester

Sorry! I never got around to taking a picture..and since I'm in my 14 week now...it wouldn't be accurate

Baby size: 2.91 inches
Baby weight: 23 grams
Fruit equivalent: Peach
What’s growing this month:

·         tiny bones are beginning to form in her arms and legs

·         intestines have moved from the umbilical cord to the abdomen

·         vocal cords are done forming

·         she may be able to suck her thumb now and make a fist

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Week 12

Baby size: 2.13 inches
Baby weight: 14 grams
Fruit equivalent: Plum
What’s growing this month:

·         The most dramatic development this week is reflexes.

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Doctor's Appointment...12 week checkup

So we had our 12 week checkup on Friday. It was a fairly quick appointment and my mother accompanied us. On the way to the doc's appointment I really felt like that would be the day I vomited. I ate a breakfast sandwich...well I partially ate it...and then I started feeling very queasy. So I drove with a bag in my lap just in case...luckily, nothing happened. So anyway, we got there and they took my weight. I gained a good ol' pound. That made me a little nervous. I don't feel like I've been eating enough and actually I proved myself to be right today because I tracked my calories, and sure enough I'm not eating enough. So I'm perplexed as to what to do at this moment... anyway, nurse asked a few questions and then asked me to lay back and lift my shift...Woah, faster than I thought. I looked behind to my hubby and asked if he were ready? Well I asked him to record it so we could have it for later and he did. So it took the nurse like 50 seconds to find Sweet Pea's heartbeat and she was bumping at 162 bpm. She said she was still below my pelvic bone and that's why it took awhile. I said, woah, it dropped and she laughed and reassured me that everything was fine and that baby's heartbeat would drop some more. Later hubby confided that he was a little nervous when it took the nurse so long to find the heartbeat but I wasn't nervous at all because I knew that baby was in there. So anyway, soon after our doctor came inside. She said everything looked great and baby was doing great. I asked her if it was ok that I only gained a pound and she said that was totally fine because some women actually lose weight in their first trimester. She also said by my next appointment I should gain about 4 pounds or so. I asked her about her induction procedure and she said with first time moms she tries to let baby come out when they are ready but statistics show that past 42 weeks baby has a slim chance of coming on their own. She said if baby isn't here she would induce in the 41st week. I asked her where my uterus was and she pressed down on my tummy (it actually hurt) and right below my belly button was where she said the top of the uterus was and she also pressed down to show where baby was. It was a quick appointment and then we all left. I scheduled my 16 week appointment and my 20 week appointment. That is on April 26 and we will get to find out the sex of the baby...I'm too excited...and can't wait...