9 & 10 week review - Catching Up!



 

Week 9

 

Week 9



From my weekly email (9 week): Your new resident is nearly an inch long — about the size of a grape — and weighs just a fraction of an ounce. She's starting to look more and more human. Her essential body parts are accounted for, though they'll go through plenty of fine-tuning in the coming months. Other changes abound: Your baby's heart finishes dividing into four chambers, and the valves start to form — as do her tiny teeth. The embryonic "tail" is completely gone. Your baby's organs, muscles, and nerves are kicking into gear. The external sex organs are there but won't be distinguishable as male or female for another few weeks. Her eyes are fully formed, but her eyelids are fused shut and won't open until 27 weeks. She has tiny earlobes, and her mouth, nose, and nostrils are more distinct. The placenta is developed enough now to take over most of the critical job of producing hormones. Now that your baby's basic physiology is in place, she's poised for rapid weight gain.

Week 10



Week 10

 From my weekly email (10 week): 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

Reward at the End of a Bad Day

It was finally here - the day I'd been waiting for for weeks!  This was no regular hump day, this was the day we would would first see our little one on camera!

8w6d, 7 & 8 week review

From my weekly email (7 week):  The big news this week: Hands and feet are emerging from developing arms and legs — although they look more like paddles at this point than the tiny, pudgy extremities you're daydreaming about holding and tickling. Technically, your baby is still considered an embryo and has something of a small tail, which is an extension of her tailbone. The tail will disappear within a few weeks, but that's the only thing getting smaller. Your baby has doubled in size since last week and now measures half an inch long, about the size of a blueberry.

If you could see inside your womb, you'd spot eyelid folds partially covering her peepers, which already have some color, as well as the tip of her nose and tiny veins beneath parchment-thin skin. Both hemispheres of your baby's brain are growing, and her liver is churning out red blood cells until her bone marrow forms and takes over this role. She also has an appendix and a pancreas, which will eventually produce the hormone insulin to aid in digestion. A loop in your baby's growing intestines is bulging into her umbilical cord, which now has distinct blood vessels to carry oxygen and nutrients to and from her tiny body.

From my weekly email (8 week): New this week: Webbed fingers and toes are poking out from your baby's hands and feet, his eyelids practically cover his eyes, breathing tubes extend from his throat to the branches of his developing lungs, and his "tail" is just about gone. In his brain, nerve cells are branching out to connect with one another, forming primitive neural pathways. You may be daydreaming about your baby as one sex or the other, but the external genitals still haven't developed enough to reveal whether you're having a boy or a girl. Either way, your baby — about the size of a kidney bean — is constantly moving and shifting, though you still can't feel it.


Hi Momma & Daddy!


How far along? 8w6d
How big is baby? The size of a kidney bean
Symptoms? About the same.  Have to plan pee breaks, nausea when I get an empty stomach.  Still sore and enlarged boobs!
Weight gain/loss(166 starting point - yikes!)? Even.  Have gone up and down a pound or two - not eating very well last week or so.  Better this week.  Love me some mint ice cream
Stretch marks? None
Maternity clothing? Nope, a lot of pants are tight, but they were tight before I was pregnant. 
Sleep?  Good.  Need more!
Exercise? Running in the mornings when I'm not too tired.  Not because of pregnancy, just being lazy!  Need to get in the grove before I'm too big to be comfortable. 
Cravings? Juice/chocolate milk.  Getting sick of only water.
Movement? Not that I can feel!
Belly Button? Looks normal
What are you looking forward to this week? First ultrasound next Wednesday!  can.not.wait!  Trying to catch up on more sleep this weekend.  Slept Sat night from 9pm until 8:30am.  Felt so good.

7w4d, 6 week review

From my weekly email (6 week):  This week's major developments: The nose, mouth, and ears that you'll spend so much time kissing in eight months are beginning to take shape. If you could see into your uterus, you'd find an oversize head and dark spots where your baby's eyes and nostrils are starting to form. His emerging ears are marked by small depressions on the sides of the head, and his arms and legs by protruding buds. His heart is beating about 100 to 160 times a minute — almost twice as fast as yours — and blood is beginning to course through his body. His intestines are developing, and the bud of tissue that will give rise to his lungs has appeared. His pituitary gland is forming, as are the rest of his brain, muscles, and bones. Right now, your baby is a quarter of an inch long, about the size of a lentil.

How far along? 7w4d
How big is baby? The size of a lentil or sweet pea

Symptoms? Still having to pee a lot.  Feeling some nausea when I am getting hungry.  Still bloated, but not as tired this week.
Weight gain/loss(166 starting point - yikes!)? 1 lb loss total, but have been making bad choice with food this week.  Lots of carbs…but they’re so good!
Stretch marks? None
Maternity clothing? Nope
Sleep?  Sleeping well, but averaging getting up to pee 3-4 times a night
Exercise? Pretty good week running. Started with 3 runs on Anna Maria. 

Cravings? None
Movement? No
Belly Button? Looks normal

What are you looking forward to this week? My body continuing to get used to pregnancy.  Hopeully hormones settle down a bit.