14 Weeks Today!


"Crown to rump, your baby is about 8cm long and weighs 43g. Her body is now growing faster than her head. This week, her parchment-thin skin is starting to cover itself with ultra-fine, downy hair that usually disappears before birth (lanugo) (Medline 2009). Though her eyebrows are beginning to grow and the hair on top of her head is sprouting, this hair may change in both texture and colour after birth.

About now, your baby can grasp, squint, frown, and grimace. She may even be able to suck her thumb. These and other movements probably correspond to the development of impulses in the brain (Medline 2009; Visembryo 2006).

If you haven't yet made an appointment for maternal serum screening (also known as the triple test), you may want to do so now. The test provides more information about your baby, and screens for Down's syndrome and other conditions. Also, your obstetrician may recommend an amniocentesis between 15 and 18 weeks for women over 35. If you are over 35, have a look at our article on how age affects pregnancy."

Wheres my so called energy I'm supposed to have now? hehe, no sign of it. Also morning sickness should be going. I think they should re-write everything there is about pregnancy lol. They talk as though you can run marathons during 2nd trimester!!! pfft! lol

Most definitely still have morning sickness, twice yesterday with queasy in between. Queasy all weekend and before that diarrhea. Also many headaches, last nights was painful. The things we have to put up with! lol.

Apart from that lot I am well, bumps growing, it fascinates me I have to keep holding it hehe.

Booked midwife for 2 weeks time and have an appointment at the Obstetrics Dept at the hosp on the 22nd. I queried about my bowel being stuck to my womb when I saw the midwife last, so thats prob why i have that appointment. I was totally confused when the letter came through the door, wondered what on earth it was for lol.

Hopefully the radiator piping is being done in the 2 bedrooms Saturday. That means we can get the new flooring down and start buying things! yay :) Nursery is still going to be an animal/jungle theme sort of, well thats the plan lol. I have lots of cuddly lions and tigers :)

Yesterday Contd

It got even better yesterday, sick again after 6pm so that was goodbye dinner, then at bedtime I was sat on the loo with the other end going, groan. Oh well I'm not constipated anymore hehe. I think I lost a lb lol.

Revenge of the Sick!

I'm going to stop telling people when I think my morning sickness has finished. Everytime I say that I am sick, either that day or the next. Last time I was sick was a week and 2 days ago, so I told dad it had finished, doh! lol.

13 Weeks!

Had the scan this morning, actually turned out to be 3 scans hehe. First time in the baby wasn't in a very good position so they sent us away for half an hour. Ouch bladder! Went back in at 9.45 and she had another look and said my bladder was too full! lol, so off to the loo, back in again. This time bub was in a better position and she took 4 pics.

She said I'm further along than 12 wks as baby was almost 3 inches. So the due date has changed to 23rd February.

So here's the pics :-

They are really clear, you can see the feet, the ear, tummy hehe. Looks like bub's blowing raspberries in this one. :)

















In the 4th one it looks like bub's playing with his foot hehe.





















12 Weeks
"Your baby's face is beginning to look more human, even though she is only about 2 inches / 5.5 centimetres long from her crown to her rump and weighs slightly less than half an ounce/ 14 grams. The eyes, which started out on the sides of the head, have moved closer together. The ears are almost in their normal position on the side of the head. The liver is making bile and the kidneys are secreting urine in the bladder. The fetus squirms if your abdomen is prodded, although you cannot yet feel movement. Fetal nerve cells have been multiplying rapidly and synapses (neurological connections in your brain) are forming. The fetus has acquired more reflexes: touching the palms makes the fingers close, touching the soles of the feet makes the toes curl down and touching the eyelids makes the eye muscles clench. Your midwife can now feel the top of the uterus, also known as the fundus, low in the abdomen. As you enter the second trimester, you may find yourself donning looser, less restrictive clothing. Soon you won't be able to fit into your regular clothes any more. You may now find that once the "sickness" feeling has passed, your appetite returns. Check out how to eat well over the next few weeks. "

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13 Weeks

"The fetus is now nearly 3 inches / 7 to 8 centimetres long from crown to rump and weighs nearly an ounce / 23 grams -- about half a banana. Its unique fingerprints are already in place. And when you poke your stomach gently and she feels it, your baby will start rooting -- that is, act as if she's searching for a nipple.

If you're having a girl, she now has approximately 2 million eggs in her ovaries; she will have only a million by the time she's born. She'll have fewer eggs as she gets older, and by age 17, the number will have dropped to 200,000.

As for you, the fog may be lifting, so to speak. For many women, the side effects of early pregnancy -- frequent urination, intense fatigue, nausea -- diminish sometime in the second trimester. Your uterus, while large enough to announce to onlookers that you're indeed pregnant, isn't so huge that it gets in your way. Even though birth is months away, your breasts may already start making colostrum, the fluid that will feed your baby for the first few days before your milk comes in.

Questions, questions? Try chatting with other mums-to-be on our birth clubs and find out how others are feeling at your stage of pregnancy.

• Note: Experts say every baby develops differently -- even in utero. These fetal development pages are designed to give a general idea of how a fetus grows in the womb. "

Annoying

Ok this wasn't funny! Middle of the night my leg decided to cramp! Only ever had cramp in my toes before so it was a new experience, it hurt! lol I made hubby jump by shouting hehe.

My friend tells me she cramped through both her pregnancies. Mum says she did too.

Prunes!

Im doing an experiment.
4 prunes
cup full of warm - hot water
blend
drink

wait lol

Run for the toilet :P

Im fed up with constipation so this had better work. Im sure my weight gain is mostly in my bowels lol. Sorry if TMI :D


Update
Btw it didn't work, apart from wind lol.

Symptoms Update

As I tend to analyse everything hehe.
Tired, not sleeping too good.
Weeing a lot lol.
Sore boobies.
Whispers..... no nausea at the mo.
Constipation, doesn't help having IBS.
Back ache, prob due to above lol.
Hot flushes hehe, normally at night.

I've put on weight, which I know I should. Was on a diet before IVF so now I am eating properly Im putting on loads of weight lol.

Want to get started on the nursery, but, radiators need finishing first, pipes. Then floor has to go down. Want to start buying things :)