Weekly Update - Week 10

This is a little late! Going to do two updates right in a row!


How Far Along: 10 weeks

What "They" Say About Our Baby's Development: "Though it'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 its development. This is the beginning of the so-called fetal period, a time when the tissues and organs in its body rapidly grow and mature. It's swallowing fluid and kicking up a storm. Vital organs — including 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. Its hands are flexed at the wrist and meet over its heart, and its feet may be long enough to meet in front of its body. The outline of its spine is clearly visible through translucent skin, and spinal nerves are beginning to stretch out from its spinal cord. Your baby's forehead temporarily bulges with its developing brain and sits very high on its head, which measures half the length of his body. From crown to rump, it's about 1 1/4 inches long. In the coming weeks, your baby will again double in size — to nearly 3 inches.

Weekly Food Comparison: A kumquat.

The Good: Feeling better in the morning. But only in the mornings!
The Bad: The nausea...it's so bad, on weekends I have a really hard time getting out of bed. I also can smell like a super hero, and it's usually all the bad things that I can smell!

The Weird: Crying at the drop of a hat. Or at commercials. Or at things I've seen before. Yesterday I cried over the last 15 minutes of the Sex and the City movie.


Currently Craving/Avoiding:

Avoiding: Not much.
Craving: Sweets, sweets and more sweets!

The Weekly Belly Bump: It's at the stage where in the morning it's small and in the evening it looks like I'm 5 months along.