As your first trimester comes to a close (WOOHOO), your fetus (who seems to be working its way through the produce section) has reached the size of a peach, about 3 inches long. Your baby's head is now about half the size of his or her crown to rump length, but that cute little body is picking up steam and will continue growing overtime ( at birth, our baby will be one quarter head, three quarters body). Meanwhile, your baby's intestines, which have been growing inside the umbilical cord, are now starting their trek to their permanent position inside your baby's abdomen. Also developing this week: your baby's vocal cords (the better to cry with...soon).
I am so excited to be almost done with my first trimester. Just super excited for this baby.
Also want to just say that I love AJ so much! He is just the most amazing husband ever.
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Sunday, August 28, 2011
week 12
Sorry folks no picture this week, I am way too lazy to get off this couch at the moment... so unless i get some energy in the next....7 hours before midnight... you may have to wait for the belly post until tomorrow or something.
I have been very fortunate to have such an easy pregnancy... but this weeks newest development is that I am so tired I can hardly keep myself awake and if I sit down without a goal in mind I just fall asleep. Which is why you may find me lurking on facebook sometimes, trying to keep myself awake.
Here's the news about our baby this week: Your baby has more than doubled in size during the past three weeks, weighing in now at 1/2 ounce and measuring (crown to rump) about 2 1/2 inches. About the size of a large fresh plum, your baby's body is hard at work in the development department. Though most of his or her systems are fully formed, there's still plenty of maturing to do. The digestive system is beginning to practice contraction movements (so your baby will be able to eat), the bone marrow is now making white blood cells (so your baby will be able to fight off all those germs passed around the playgroup), and the pituitary gland at the base of the brain has started producing hormones (so your baby will one day be able to make babies of his or her own).
I am so excited about this baby. We get to find out the gender in just 8 weeks, then maybe we'll start calling him or her by a name... because IT just doesn't feel right.
I have been very fortunate to have such an easy pregnancy... but this weeks newest development is that I am so tired I can hardly keep myself awake and if I sit down without a goal in mind I just fall asleep. Which is why you may find me lurking on facebook sometimes, trying to keep myself awake.
Here's the news about our baby this week: Your baby has more than doubled in size during the past three weeks, weighing in now at 1/2 ounce and measuring (crown to rump) about 2 1/2 inches. About the size of a large fresh plum, your baby's body is hard at work in the development department. Though most of his or her systems are fully formed, there's still plenty of maturing to do. The digestive system is beginning to practice contraction movements (so your baby will be able to eat), the bone marrow is now making white blood cells (so your baby will be able to fight off all those germs passed around the playgroup), and the pituitary gland at the base of the brain has started producing hormones (so your baby will one day be able to make babies of his or her own).
I am so excited about this baby. We get to find out the gender in just 8 weeks, then maybe we'll start calling him or her by a name... because IT just doesn't feel right.
Friday, August 26, 2011
Love is a Journey
Love is looking into each others eyes every morning as if it were the first time and closing each day with a kiss that says, "I can't wait until tomorrow."
Love is working side by side for something you believe in, knowing there's another person in this world who is there for you.
Love is growing old together and falling in love over and over again, all along this journey you share.
Being pregnant has given me the opportunity to look at the love that AJ and I share together and has expanded it by a million. I think it really hit me the other night when AJ came to bed. It was 1 AM and he woke me up just to tell me how much he loved me and how excited he was to have this baby together. Something so simple surely could have waited until morning, but he must have really needed for me to hear that.
I could not imagine life without him. He is my best friend and I love him so much. He is going to be a wonderful father. I don't think I could do this without him by my side.
I have been really emotional lately (hormones) and I know that I get really annoyed with him a lot of the time, but I really think that this is something special that could only come about if we were together.
We found each other by chance and we were guided to each other and confirmed our feelings very quickly. I think that it was important to the Lord that we met and got married. I never have once had second thoughts about him. Even when I freaked out I knew that I was meant to be with him.
This new baby is such a blessing to me and to our relationship. I am so excited to be adding to our eternal family and I hope that I am a good mother, but mostly that I can live up to my wonderful husband and be a great wife.
Love is working side by side for something you believe in, knowing there's another person in this world who is there for you.
Love is growing old together and falling in love over and over again, all along this journey you share.
Being pregnant has given me the opportunity to look at the love that AJ and I share together and has expanded it by a million. I think it really hit me the other night when AJ came to bed. It was 1 AM and he woke me up just to tell me how much he loved me and how excited he was to have this baby together. Something so simple surely could have waited until morning, but he must have really needed for me to hear that.
I could not imagine life without him. He is my best friend and I love him so much. He is going to be a wonderful father. I don't think I could do this without him by my side.
I have been really emotional lately (hormones) and I know that I get really annoyed with him a lot of the time, but I really think that this is something special that could only come about if we were together.
We found each other by chance and we were guided to each other and confirmed our feelings very quickly. I think that it was important to the Lord that we met and got married. I never have once had second thoughts about him. Even when I freaked out I knew that I was meant to be with him.
This new baby is such a blessing to me and to our relationship. I am so excited to be adding to our eternal family and I hope that I am a good mother, but mostly that I can live up to my wonderful husband and be a great wife.
Friday, August 19, 2011
week 11
I am about halfway through my third month! Woo
At 11 weeks your baby is just over 2 inches long now and weighs about a third of an ounce. His or her body is straightening out and the torso is lengthening. Hair follicles are forming, and fingernail and toenail beds are beginning to develop (nails will actually start to grow within the next few weeks). Those nails are forming on individual fingers and toes, having separated recently from the webbed hands and feet of just a few weeks ago. And though you can't tell baby's gender by looking yet (even with an ultrasound), ovaries are developing if its a girl. What you would be able to see, if your womb had a view, is that your fetus has distinct human characteristics by now, with hands and feet in the front of the body, ears nearly in their final shape (if not final location), open nasal passages on the tip of the nose, a tongue and palate in the mouth, and visible nipples.
I hope you like reading about my baby's development as much as I do, because this will be a weekly thing. Its so exciting to me to realize the miracle of the human anatomy and what it is capable of. Now its even better as I get to read about how my baby's body develops from just a few tiny cells.
Next week you can expect a baby bump picture along with all the wonderful info. Even though I feel fat enough to start taking them now.
At 11 weeks your baby is just over 2 inches long now and weighs about a third of an ounce. His or her body is straightening out and the torso is lengthening. Hair follicles are forming, and fingernail and toenail beds are beginning to develop (nails will actually start to grow within the next few weeks). Those nails are forming on individual fingers and toes, having separated recently from the webbed hands and feet of just a few weeks ago. And though you can't tell baby's gender by looking yet (even with an ultrasound), ovaries are developing if its a girl. What you would be able to see, if your womb had a view, is that your fetus has distinct human characteristics by now, with hands and feet in the front of the body, ears nearly in their final shape (if not final location), open nasal passages on the tip of the nose, a tongue and palate in the mouth, and visible nipples.
I hope you like reading about my baby's development as much as I do, because this will be a weekly thing. Its so exciting to me to realize the miracle of the human anatomy and what it is capable of. Now its even better as I get to read about how my baby's body develops from just a few tiny cells.
Next week you can expect a baby bump picture along with all the wonderful info. Even though I feel fat enough to start taking them now.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Little Miracle
I had a completely life changing experience yesterday at our OB appointment. It was definitely worth the hour wait for the midwife to come in. We did a check up on mom (me) and then she got out the doppler to try and find a heart beat. I was getting a little anxious when she couldn't find one (even though that is completely normal at 10 weeks) so she wheeled in the ultrasound machine. It took a minute or two but we finally got a clear (ish) picture of our baby in there. We were looking for a tiny heart beating but the first thing I saw was a little flutter, just a tiny twitchy movement coming from that little miracle. So we tried again for a better picture of the heart and THERE IT WAS. I was so proud of myself for not bawling my eyes out right there.
When I finally had a minute alone I had a chance to really think about what we got to see. That proof that there is something growing in there, that its not just a dream or a fluke but a real live baby in my belly. There are no words that describe what kind of change a miracle like that brings.
To add the the sappiness of the moment, the best part was AJ climbing into bed last night, telling me he loves me, and for him to tell me that he was really happy that we got to see our baby.
When I finally had a minute alone I had a chance to really think about what we got to see. That proof that there is something growing in there, that its not just a dream or a fluke but a real live baby in my belly. There are no words that describe what kind of change a miracle like that brings.
To add the the sappiness of the moment, the best part was AJ climbing into bed last night, telling me he loves me, and for him to tell me that he was really happy that we got to see our baby.
Monday, August 15, 2011
10 weeks and counting
Your baby's growth is fast and furious when you are 10 weeks pregnant. He or she is nearly an inch and a half long and the size of a prune, but not nearly as shriveled (even with all the time it spends in water). In fact, your baby is really taking a human shape now. Bones and cartilage are forming, and small indentations on the legs are developing into knees and ankles. The arms (complete with elbows) can flex already, but don't run to the store for a baseball bat just yet. Though your baby's arms are taking shape and getting stronger, each one is only about the size of this number 1.
The tooth bud fairy is making her appearance this week, heralding the arrival of your baby's little choppers, which are forming under the gums. (Those pearly whites won't break through the gums until your baby is close to six months old). Other systems are go, too. Your baby's stomach is producing digestive juices, the kidneys are producing larger quantities of urine, and, if your baby's a boy, he's already producing testosterone (yikes!).
I am so excited about tomorrow. We are going to our first real prenatal appointment in the afternoon and hopefully we will get to hear that precious heart beat! I am thrilled and also pretty nervous about this appointment because this will hopefully be the tangible proof that will solidify this pregnancy in my mind. Thus far it feels like a dream, a wonderful dream come true, but still not real. I'll update again tomorrow but anyone want to chance a guess on the heart beat?!
The tooth bud fairy is making her appearance this week, heralding the arrival of your baby's little choppers, which are forming under the gums. (Those pearly whites won't break through the gums until your baby is close to six months old). Other systems are go, too. Your baby's stomach is producing digestive juices, the kidneys are producing larger quantities of urine, and, if your baby's a boy, he's already producing testosterone (yikes!).
I am so excited about tomorrow. We are going to our first real prenatal appointment in the afternoon and hopefully we will get to hear that precious heart beat! I am thrilled and also pretty nervous about this appointment because this will hopefully be the tangible proof that will solidify this pregnancy in my mind. Thus far it feels like a dream, a wonderful dream come true, but still not real. I'll update again tomorrow but anyone want to chance a guess on the heart beat?!
Sunday, August 7, 2011
In the making
I thought that it would be a good week to announce our special news; the time feels right anyway. Especially as our little bean has officially moved from embryo to fetus as we reached week 9 of our pregnancy.
You guessed it, we're going to have a baby!!!
I could not be more excited about this news and have been having a hard time keeping it a secret (even though we've told quite a few people, and I said it would be easy to keep it a secret until we know the gender).
We are due March 11, 2012. 9 weeks along today. So far everything looks good and we get to go in on the 16th and hear the heart beat. Could not be more excited than I am now.
Of course along with the excitement comes the nerves. Will we have enough money? Are we going to be good parents?
I am confident that we will have everything that we need, and that we'll learn quick enough what kind of parents we will be. That being said, I don't want advice. AJ and I both firmly believe that we will be fit parents, and that even though you may be great parents to YOUR kids, that doesn't automatically make you great parents to OURS.
Aside from the occasional bout of morning sickness (thank heaven for preggie pops!) and the occasional moodiness and crying spells, I feel very lucky and grateful that I have so far had a pretty easy pregnancy. I was scared that because my mom was so sick during hers, that I would be too, but its been a fairly easy 9 weeks.
I have already started adding things to my baby registry, mostly the big stuff, and mostly just so I can keep track of the things I'd like to get and that I think are necessary. I'm not going to get a lot of things that they list as needs because they have ridiculously long lists. I am however really excited about the nursery.
Anyways, I just thought it was time to announce our happy news. Thanks for reading!
You guessed it, we're going to have a baby!!!
I could not be more excited about this news and have been having a hard time keeping it a secret (even though we've told quite a few people, and I said it would be easy to keep it a secret until we know the gender).
We are due March 11, 2012. 9 weeks along today. So far everything looks good and we get to go in on the 16th and hear the heart beat. Could not be more excited than I am now.
Of course along with the excitement comes the nerves. Will we have enough money? Are we going to be good parents?
I am confident that we will have everything that we need, and that we'll learn quick enough what kind of parents we will be. That being said, I don't want advice. AJ and I both firmly believe that we will be fit parents, and that even though you may be great parents to YOUR kids, that doesn't automatically make you great parents to OURS.
Aside from the occasional bout of morning sickness (thank heaven for preggie pops!) and the occasional moodiness and crying spells, I feel very lucky and grateful that I have so far had a pretty easy pregnancy. I was scared that because my mom was so sick during hers, that I would be too, but its been a fairly easy 9 weeks.
I have already started adding things to my baby registry, mostly the big stuff, and mostly just so I can keep track of the things I'd like to get and that I think are necessary. I'm not going to get a lot of things that they list as needs because they have ridiculously long lists. I am however really excited about the nursery.
Anyways, I just thought it was time to announce our happy news. Thanks for reading!
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