So time flies. week 14 it really hit me. I'm not sure why but GOOD GRIEF! haha. This week was just a shocker, everything else seemed normal, but then when I started saying I'm 14w however many days, it really was like wow. I'm going to blink and this will all be over. I still felt really good this week. I had A LOT of energy. Actually it was during this weekend that I wore Dillon out around the house. (Doing chores mind you.) I felt like I was going to run a mile, but I was still pretty tired at the same time. Finally. Energy and I'm not throwing up. Yes!
Here is our pumpkin this week.
and info on him/her
Your Baby
Think of it this way: You're a third of the way through and baby's a third of the way cooked. Now that the "big stuff" (like skeletal and organ development) is taken care of, your baby starts a period of rapid brain growth, fat buildup and detail work. Highlights this week include:
Your baby now has fingerprints! Book 'em, Danno! Believe it or not, he actually created them himself while swimming around in the amniotic fluid. As he moved his hands, the skin on the tips of his fingers formed unique ridges and folds. That's why no one on earth has the same fingerprints, not even identical twins! Cool, right? Baby's arms are now in proportion to his tiny body, but his legs are still on the short size in comparison.
Meconium, that tar-like, sticky first baby poop, is now loading up your baby's intestines, which means you might want to set aside a bottle of olive oil, one of the few things that will get the gooey poop off of baby's bottom.
Your baby continues to gain new and impressive skills such as practicing and controlling voluntary muscle movements (this will help him fling food across the room later in life). Your tiny dancer's movements are no longer the jerky, uncontrollable twitches of yore—he now moves with graceful control.
Your baby is now weighs about an ounce and is the length of a flip phone, or roughly 3.5 inches—he's tripled in size from a mere three weeks ago! Luckily, you haven't done the same.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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