November 1, 2008

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNT DARBI!!!!

she is now 27!

October 31, 2008

WEEK 10

• Baby is now called a fetus in "medical terms".
• The most critical part of the infant's development is complete. Now she is headed into a period of rapid growth.
• While a bit strange to envision, your baby's head is now about half its length - Soon the rest of the body's growth will catch up but this area is prepared to keep up with the rapid brain development!
• Eyelids fuse shut and irises begin to develop - Eye color is also determined by this point.
• Placenta begins to function this week or next - The placenta is the organ responsible for both the provision of nutrients along with the removal of waste to keep your baby growing strong!
• Your baby will be about 1.22 inch long (3.1cm) and weigh 0.14 ounce (4gm) at the end of this week

Though he's barely the size of a kumquat— a little over an inch or so long, crown to bottom — and weighs less than a quarter of an ounce, your baby has now completed the most critical portion of his development. This is the beginning of the so-called fetal period, a time when the tissues and organs in his body rapidly grow and mature.He's swallowing fluid and kicking up a storm. Vital organs — including his kidneys, intestines, brain, and liver (now making red blood cells in place of the disappearing yolk sac) — are in place and starting to function, though they'll continue to develop throughout your pregnancy.

If you could take a peek inside your womb, you'd spot minute details, like tiny nails forming on fingers and toes (no more webbing) and peach-fuzz hair beginning to grow on tender skin.In other developments: Your baby's limbs can bend now. His hands are flexed at the wrist and meet over his heart, and his feet may be long enough to meet in front of his body. The outline of his spine is clearly visible through translucent skin, and spinal nerves are beginning to stretch out from his spinal cord. Your baby's forehead temporarily bulges with his developing brain and sits very high on his head, which measures half the length of his body. From crown to rump, he's about 1 1/4 inches long. In the coming weeks, your baby will again double in size— to nearly 3 inches.

October 25,2008

WEEK 9

• Baby has begun movement - While still too small for you to feel, your little one is wriggling, shifting, and dancing already! Makes you almost wish for a window to peek in whenever you want!


• Most joints are formed now - and trust that your little one is practicing bending and flexing.


• Fetus will curve its fingers around an object placed in the palm of its hand - This is amazing to see! At only nine weeks, if you happen to have an ultrasound, you may observe your infant fascinated by everything he or she can lay their fingers on (mainly other fingers, toes, ears and nose!


• Fingerprints are already evident in the skin


• Average size this week -- length 0.9 inch (2.3cm), weight 0.07 ounce (2gm)

Our new resident is nearly an inch long — about the size of a grape — and weighs just a fraction of an ounce. She's starting to look more and more human. Her essential body parts are accounted for, though they'll go through plenty of fine-tuning in the coming months. Other changes abound: our baby's heart finishes dividing into four chambers, and the valves start to form — as do her tiny teeth. The embryonic "tail" is completely gone. Baby's organs, muscles, and nerves are kicking into gear. The external sex organs are there but won't be distinguishable as male or female for another few weeks. Her eyes are fully formed, but her eyelids are fused shut and won't open until 27 weeks. She has tiny earlobes, and her mouth, nose, and nostrils are more distinct. The placenta is developed enough now to take over most of the critical job of producing hormones. Now that our baby's basic physiology is in place, she's poised for rapid weight gain.

October 14, 2008

I HAVE A NEW COUSIN!!!!

My aunt, Traci, (and her hubbie, Jim) had her/their baby yesterday afternoon at 3:53.

Her name is Daleni Elizabeth and she weighed 7 lbs. 2 oz.

I TOLD TRACI THE BABY WAS A GIRL!!!!

October 12, 2008

Back in January, Nick and I were at a arcade/restaurant in Omaha celebrating Uncle Troy's birthday. They have a machine that takes a picture of 2 people and then determines what your future child is supposed to look like. All in fun of course. You get to choose the sex and hair color (maybe more, but that's all I remember). So this is what our child is supposed to look like...

October 14, 2008

8 weeks!

New this week: Webbed fingers and toes are poking out from our 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. Our baby — about the size of a kidney bean — is constantly moving and shifting, though Temple still can't feel it.

This week:

• Cartilage and bones begin to form - At the end of this week your baby will have already completed 1/5th of the journey 'til his birthday!





• The basic structure of the eye is well underway - The position is more "newborn" like already!





• The tongue begins to develop





• Intestines move out of the umbilical cord into the abdomen.





• Body grows and makes room - Two months along and this little one is growing inside and out by leaps and bounds!





• The fingers and toes have appeared but are webbed and short





• Baby's length (crown to rump) is 0.61 inch (1.6cm) and weight is 0.04 ounce (1gm)

October 7, 2008

7 weeks!!!

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, our 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. Our baby has doubled in size since last week and now measures half an inch long, about the size of a blueberry.

There are 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 our 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 our 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.

October 6, 2008

We told my parents this weekend. They didn't quite react the way we expected. We're assuming they were in shock ????

The story: when we got engaged around Christmas we gave them Father of the Bride (part 1). So to tell them we are pregnant, we gave them Father of the Bride (part 2).

Here it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oc_flL57tg

October 4, 2008

THE DAY IS FINALLY HERE!!!!

I get to tell the rest of my family tonight. I'm so excited...maybe I'll be able to sleep through the night again once they know. I've been waking up after 5 1/2 hours of sleep every night and not being able to go back to sleep. I'm so tired! I can't even nap!

But yay! In about 12 hours the people I love most will all know.

stay tuned

October 1, 2008

Oh my. I have NEVER been this hungry in my entire life! I can't stand it. I feel like I am constantly eating! After a year of watching what I eat, and how much I eat, I am now feeding my face constantly! NOTHING fills me up. It's very uncomfortable. I need to move into the grocery store, I'm going to eat us out of house and home. Yes, I realize I'm "eating for 2", but SHE'S THE SIZE OF A BEAN!!!! NOT GODZILLA!

2 more days til I get to tell mom and dad!!! and troy!