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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!

7 weeks

The big news this week: Hands and feet are emerging from developing arms and legs — although they look more like paddles at this point than the tiny, pudgy extremities you're daydreaming about holding and tickling. Technically, your baby is still considered an embryo and has something of a small tail, which is an extension of her tailbone. The tail will disappear within a few weeks, but that's the only thing getting smaller. Your baby has doubled in size since last week and now measures half an inch long, about the size of a blueberry.If you could see inside your womb, you'd spot eyelid folds partially covering her peepers, which already have some color, as well as the tip of her nose and tiny veins beneath parchment-thin skin. Both hemispheres of your baby's brain are growing, and her liver is churning out red blood cells until her bone marrow forms and takes over this role. She also has an appendix and a pancreas, which will eventually produce the hormone insulin to aid in digestion. A loop in your baby's growing intestines is bulging into her umbilical cord, which now has distinct blood vessels to carry oxygen and nutrients to and from her tiny body.



We got baby's first gifts and I'm just now getting around to getting the pictures up! Thanks Nana and Papa for the chick and The Zank's for the Willow tree statue



And now to the belly shots: here is the first day of the week


Here's the last day, taken by the lovely Lisa Hoopes in ATL at the girls weekend