Week 14

So I have made it to the 2nd Trimester! Yay! I'm excited to soon feel even more stretching in my uterus and maybe the baby kicking or something.  I heard that you can feel the baby as early as 14 weeks, although that usually doesn't happen for a first pregnancy but I'm still crossing my fingers. The baby is starting to pee thus making the amniotic fluid. The baby is also making Lenugo, the fur the baby will be in until it is born to keep it warm and to protect it from all of the fluid that it will live in for a while. The baby is the size of a lemon and the 3.5 inches long and 1.5 oz. It is making breathing movements which is cool but it still remains a mystery on how the little suction they do after the birth prepares the baby to breath. It's like we are fishes that can handle water in our lungs until we are born. As well as the lenugo the hair on the babies head and eyebrows are developing. I bet my baby will have a ton of dark thick hair like I did when I was a baby. But there is a chance that the baby will be bald because the Stotts babies all have been bald lol.  My uterus weighs 8.75 oz, 7.5 oz of fluid,  and I can feel my uterus about 3 inches below my belly button. :). Today I had a doctors appointment and it was pretty short. They took a urine sample to test the protein and sugar in it, weighed me, and we heard the heartbeat through my belly with this little device. My next check up is Sept 12 and we find out the gender 2 weeks later! Lately my body has been really tired as usual and I get dizzy a lot and headaches. Fun stuff! All for the baby!

13 weeks continued..

I found another website that gave even more information about the baby right now so I thought I would share. I think I was wrong on some information I told people before but NOW the baby ways about 1 ounce or 25 grams. The bones are replacing cartilage now and the ribs are beginning to appear. The nose and chin are well defined, so that makes me think that baby has a shape that will be their shape of their face when they are born. The baby will begin to learn to suck it's thumb. And we could probably determine the gender of the baby with ultrasound, however who knows how accurate it is. I would rather wait a couple a months for a more accurate viewing. The baby is now producing insulin which controls the glucose, the muscles are becoming more organized. Right now my uterus is filling my pelvic area and growing upwards into my abdomen. My baby's weight will quadruple in the next month!! Cool huh!

13 Weeks

So I haven't posted in a while. Perry and I visited California last week and my parents were in town the week before. The only new things going on and are kind of not a bother anymore was that  my hips move a lot more like I can feel them shift and then move the wrong spot and cause me pain like in my left butt. It doesn't really happen anymore. I can also feel the uterus/baby if I push above my pelvic bone. it just feels like a hard bubble there. I don't think I have grown any but maybe look a little more bloated than I looked before. I'm supposed to start showing soon. So updates on the baby. The ears and eyes are now in their proper place. The babies intestines have moved from the umbilical cord to it's abdomen, the baby's vocal cords are being developed, and it is about 3 inches long, the size of a peach! So I have been feeling good, I'm still tired and sometimes really hungry but other times it hasn't really hit me and I feel like I should be hungry more often. Weird that I'm not. But whatever, it was annoying being constantly hungry no matter what I ate.  I usually feel sick to my stomach and then realize I am bloated with gas. I know gross, but it is such a common thing I have heard so I'm not afraid to share. And I'm constipated and have loose stools all at once. I feel like if I could just flush my colon I would feel so much better. That is really what makes me feel sick and then I also just can't drink enough water and I get headaches so fast from being "dehydrated".

Doctor's appointment

So I had my doctor's appointment today and we got there and they weren't sure why I was getting another ultrasound and neither did I but I wanted to because I was told we were going to and the baby is supposed to look like a baby too so it would be neat. Luckily we did do one. It was vaginal and the little baby was wiggling a lot and we could see all of it's fingers and the heart beating in it's chambers and the umbilical cord was pulsating the same rate as the babies heart. So that was kind of cool. The baby measure about 3.47 cm close to 1.5 inches so it is growing well. The yolk sac is still in the placenta but will soon go away. I guess the yolk sac is where the baby gets it's nutrients and then now that the liver is formed it will start working and there won't be a need for a yolk sac.  We also heard the heart beat. It was beating 173 beats per minute. So that was cool and the best part was seeing the little baby wiggling. I couldn't believe all of that was happening inside of me and I couldn't feel it! So weird! Then after the ultrasound we saw Dr. Evans. He was nice. At the last visit I asked if I was going to do my prenatal labs at this visit and they said no but I guess they figured why not! So they did a really intense pap smear, enough to make me bleed all day. It hurt! I won't lie. I had one done a couple months ago and I didn't feel anything with that one. Oh well. And the doctor stuck his finger up my butt! Not sure why but it was definitely a new experience for me! Yikes! Also they drew about four capsules of blood to do the whole shpeal of labs. I will finally know my blood type. I have always been curious. So the other tests they are running are my immunity to rubella, RH factor, anemia, HCG levels, white blood cell count, to detect Hep B, and blood sugar levels. The doctor told me I shouldn't do any high impact exercise and should keep my heart rate below 140 and no hot tubs. That pretty much sums it up. My next appointment is in 4 weeks on August 14th at 9am. We probably won't have another ultrasound yet. until another couple months. 

Week 10

So we are at week ten. My uterus is a little bigger than a grapefruit, where from the start it was the size of a fist. The baby is about 1 and 1/4 inches and 1 and 1/2 inches now. It has been described as being the size of a prune or a small strawberry. Next week it will be a lime! Big huh! So as far as physical development, the baby is starting to form it's teeth under it's gums. Also all the vital organs are formed, arm joints are working, bones and cartilage are forming now,  the stomach is producing digestive juices and the kidney's are producing greater quantities of urine. If the baby is a boy teststoterone will start being produced. Oh also the baby now has finger prints! crazy!!! So that is the developmental update. I have felt pretty good this week, except for Monday, or it might have been Tuesday. I just wasn't feeling good but I didn't throw up or anything. I just got nauseous. I know I'm a wimp. So many other women get way sicker than me, but I honestly don't know how I would handle it, emotionally especially. I would want everyone to feel sorry for me. So we will be having an ultra sound tomorrow morning so I hope I can figure out how to post it on here, but if not, I'm sorry. Above is a picture of what the fetus should look like. Again I don't think it has changed much in appearance from last week, but there are probably tiny details that have. When searching for pictures online, it's really sad because sometimes pictures of aborted babies come up and it is just heart breaking and disgusting that someone would feel okay killing a baby. Anyway. Enough. See you next week!

Week 9

Wow these weeks go by so fast! So the baby is the size of a bing cherry or a green olive (1 inch). It resembles a gummy bear or cinnamon bear if you saw it on an ultrasound.  The baby now has a fully functioning placenta and it now recieves all the nutrients through that. It has become a critical time to be careful and clean to make sure no teratogens pass through the placenta. Oh! I forgot to mention that the baby has graduated from an embryo to a fetus!! Yay! Supposedly on an ultrasound we would be able to hear the heartbeat. My baby is beginning to grow nipples and hair follicles and has a pancreas, gall bladder, bile ducts, and an anus lol. This week the baby will be forming its sex organs. Little muscles are beginning to form. So I read online about fatigue and it is called pregnancy fatigue. Luckily my energy will begin to increase from this point since the placenta is almost done being built (It will be complete at month 4) and my nausea will also decrease... I'm soo happy about this. I have had a hard time not sleeping at work and class. I go to bed early and wake up late wanting to sleep even more.  This morning I slept til 7:15 and could not keep my eyes open. However the last couple days I have been religiously going pee at 5 or 5:30 in the morning! Ugh I hate it! Anyway, so that's life. We also have a mouse that we killed. I don't know if we have anymore but I feel cleaner with it being dead. Above is this weeks picture. The baby hasn't changed too much externally. 

8 Weeks Pregnant! or 2 Months! 7 months to go...

So above is what our baby should look like. A lot of the major organs should be forming and the baby has their final set of kidneys formed. The baby supposedly twitches and has brain waves!! Cool huh. I feel a little more tired than last week in school. I get really tired and if I don't lay down for a little bit I will feel worse. I get weepy too quite a bit, as the "What to Expect" book calls it.  This probably no surprise to anyone who knows me pretty well, I'm known to cry about lots of things. Anyway, I watched a birthing movie and I think I want to do it all natural.  There is just something about it that makes me think that it would be the hardest thing to overcome and really rewarding. Plus I don't want to be depleted of any of the love hormones that the baby sends you that the medication does take away. I would also like to do it in maybe a bath tub or some position that would have gravity on my side. The bathtub idea is that it is less painful and traumatic for the little one. I'm a little freaked out about the pain that is inevitably going to come in about 7 months. Ah! But I hope that from thinking about it often and deciding more about it I will be more mentally prepared. I don't think it is bad to use medication. More than likely I will end up using medication but I hope I don't. I was telling Meg that I will probably try every birthing option ever tried besides C-section or a Vac unless it is necessary, but I just think it would be cool to experience all the different ways that women have done it. Anyway, more updates to come.  Oh and I have officially graduated to a raspberry. The little raspberry is about 1/2-3/4 of and inch! Wow! Soo awesome!