Saturday, August 8, 2009

8 weeks



This week I'm growing a Raspbaby!


Can you believe we are at 8wks already? I cannot. It's going so fast and this is suppose to be when time passes slowly. This last week I started getting the baby registry together and just today went to barnes and nobel to get some ideas for pregnancy and baby books gathered up. The nausea has started to subside, thanks to my mentally overcoming thinking about it all day. I just keep going and don't let it slow me down and that's seemed to work. Here's how babies growing this week:

Webbed fingers and toes are poking out from your baby's hands and feet, his eyelids practically cover his eyes, breathing tubes extend from his throat to the branches of his developing lungs, and his "tail" is just about gone. In his brain, nerve cells are branching out to connect with one another, forming primitive neural pathways. You may be daydreaming about your baby as one sex or the other, but the external genitals still haven't developed enough to reveal whether you're having a boy or a girl. Either way, your baby is constantly moving and shifting, though you still can't feel it.


I spend the weekend in Atlanta with Lisa and Abigail. Of course two WHNP's wanted to SEE baby so we headed down to Abigail's office and warmed up the ultrasound. Baby looked great and even gave us a wiggle, the first time I have seen actual movement! Here's the picture.


and the belly shots:









I must give credit where it is due, Lisa and Abigail kindly kept up the nightly routine of snapping a belly shot for me, thanks girls!

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