How your baby's growing: This week's big developments: Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his thumb! Thanks to brain impulses, his facial muscles are getting a workout as his tiny features form one expression after another. His kidneys are producing urine, which he releases into the amniotic fluid around him — a process he'll keep up until birth. He can grasp, too, and if you're having an ultrasound now, you may even catch him sucking his thumb. In other news: Your baby's stretching out. From head to bottom, he measures 3 1/2 inches — about the size of a lemon— and he weighs 1 1/2 ounces. His body's growing faster than his head, which now sits upon a more distinct neck. By the end of this week, his arms will have grown to a length that's in proportion to the rest of his body. (His legs still have some lengthening to do.) He's starting to develop an ultra-fine, downy covering of hair, called lanugo, all over his body. Your baby's liver starts making bile this week — a sign that it's doing its job right — and his spleen starts helping in the production of red blood cells. Though you can't feel his tiny punches and kicks yet, your little pugilist's hands and feet (which now measure about 1/2 inch long) are more flexible and active.
I must respectfully disagree on the last sentence since I have been feeling the baby move for almost a week now. However I was able to feel movement early with all my pregnancies. SO here is the picture, not great, but oh well. As you can see my belly just barely stretches out further than by boobs. LOL! I no longer fit in my regular clothes, but a lot of my maternity clothes is still too big. I've been wearing maternity undies lately because when I wear my regular underwear, it cuts right through the middle of my stomach giving me the appearance of having two fat rolls, not so attractive if you ask me.
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Hi baby! *wavey*
Cute belly, Holly. You're a third of the way there! Woohoo. :)
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