This week brought rain (hooray), beef stew and sickness for me. A migraine on Sunday was joined by cold and flu symptoms that have had me working from home for the past two days. Luckily, I am finally feeling better and can safely say that I will be returning to work tomorrow.
I am so glad to say that we will be hearing Bean's heartbeat right about now in exactly a week! I am SO excited!
How I'm Feeling
Aside from the sickness, I am feeling much better. Less morning sickness, less tiredness and less bloating. Now my stomach pooch REALLY is a pooch and not a pooch surrounded by water retention. My blood work showed that I was fairly anemic, so I've been taking a yucky iron supplement. Although I HATE the taste of it (it's liquid) I have noticed less sleepiness. Plus, anything for a healthier bebe, right?
What Bean's Doing
(taken from babycenter.com)
Though he's barely the size of a kumquat — a little over an inch or so long, crown to bottom — and weighs less than a quarter of an ounce, your baby has now completed the most critical portion of his development. This is the beginning of the so-called fetal period, a time when the tissues and organs in his body rapidly grow and mature.
He's swallowing fluid and kicking up a storm. Vital organs — including his kidneys, intestines, brain, and liver (now making red blood cells in place of the disappearing yolk sac) — are in place and starting to function, though they'll continue to develop throughout your pregnancy.
If you could take a peek inside your womb, you'd spot minute details, like tiny nails forming on fingers and toes (no more webbing) and peach-fuzz hair beginning to grow on tender skin.
In other developments: Your baby's limbs can bend now. His hands are flexed at the wrist and meet over his heart, and his feet may be long enough to meet in front of his body. The outline of his spine is clearly visible through translucent skin, and spinal nerves are beginning to stretch out from his spinal cord. Your baby's forehead temporarily bulges with his developing brain and sits very high on his head, which measures half the length of his body. From crown to rump, he's about 1 1/4 inches long. In the coming weeks, your baby will again double in size — to nearly 3 inches.
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I seriously love how you've got the little clips of what the baby is doing. I loved reading those when I was pregnant and turns out I love reading them when my friends are pregnant too. :P
ReplyDeleteSorry you're sick. But, you're nearly thru your first trimester AND you get to hear a heart beat (or heart beats) soon!
I started to tear up reading about peach fuzz forming on little bean's head and his/her nails starting to form, etc.. What an amazing God we have! I'm so excited for you!
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear that the iron is helping and that you're feeling much better. =]
stacey
I didn't realize there was a comment section. Also, I comment to you every day, on the phone, and sometimes in person. But, by way of commenting, this is the greatest. To see what Bean looks like every week is so exciting and a lot more than was available to me when I was having babies. I'm so glad you're so smart, you poor, uneducated, unsocialized homeschooler.
ReplyDeleteYay for hearing the heart beat soon. Don't be alarmed if it takes them a little while to find it, I guess that's normal when they are so small. (I wish my doc. told me that BEFORE two minutes of searching...totally freaked me out)
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