14 Weeks

I always mark the new week by searching the net to find out what's going on in there. I found some exciting stuff this week at Parents Connect. Here's what they have to say, "Think of it this way: You're a third of the way through and baby's a third of the way cooked. Now that the "big stuff" (like skeletal and organ development) is taken care of, your baby starts a period of rapid brain growth, fat buildup and detail work. Highlights this week include:Your baby now has fingerprints! Believe it or not, he actually created them himself while swimming around in the amniotic fluid. As he moved his hands, the skin on the tips of his fingers formed unique ridges and folds. That's why no one on earth has the same fingerprints, not even identical twins! Cool, right? Baby's arms are now in proportion to his tiny body, but his legs are still on the short size in comparison.Meconium, that tar-like, sticky first baby poop, is now loading up your baby's intestines, which means you might want to set aside a bottle of olive oil, one of the few things that will get the gooey poop off of baby's bottom. Your baby continues to gain new and impressive skills such as practicing and controlling voluntary muscle movements (this will help him fling food across the room later in life). Your tiny dancer's movements are no longer the jerky, uncontrollable twitches of yore—he now moves with graceful control. Your baby is now weighs about an ounce and is the length of a flip phone, or roughly 3.5 inches—he's tripled in size from a mere three weeks ago!"

12 Weeks

Well Wednesday 8/5/09 I was 12 weeks!!! 8 more weeks until we find out whether we’re having a boy or girl! We had an OB appointment Wednesday (12 week anniversary), and we listened to the heartbeat; so cool!!! We were only in the office for 5 minutes or so, they don’t do much in the early visits after the initial visit. I bought Casey an LSU Pacifier Holder; one of the nurses in the OB office makes and sells them. It’s cute, I’ll have to take a picture and post it. Well since we got to listen to the heartbeat yesterday, I guess Casey got inspired. He bought a heart monitor so we could listen to the heartbeat at home, but little did he know that it doesn’t really work until you’re in your early 3rd trimester. That was in fine print in the booklet… So, he tried and tried, but we couldn’t find anything at home last night. But it was so cute to watch the intensity in his face as he was searching for that heartbeat!!! Once he thought he found it, but it was just my heartbeat - lol...