How your baby's growing: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.
How is mommy feeling? Not good. I've been terribly worried about my next ob appt. I'm terrified we will get there and see nothing instead of that "gummi bear" figure. Why do I feel this way? Because I had been feeling pretty good! I'm still having cramps on and off, although they are different but pretty much all other stuff has gone away. If you could, keep us in your thoughts and prayers and I'm getting very anxious and nervous about next Monday!
I guess on the good (?) side of things I have felt like crap this weekend. Friday I was fine, we went to baseball. Saturday I was fine in the AM but could barely eat any dinner. Yesterday I took a few bites of lunch and dinner and thought I was going to loose it! I almost couldn't even make it to wal-mart, and the dinner I spent my afternoon preparing I couldn't even eat. And I got on the scale this morning and I am down anywhere from 3-4lbs since late last week.
Good news is, I guess, I'm still exhausted all the time. Thats the only pg symptom I think I have.
I'm just in a paranoid state :(
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