baby update – 68 days pregnant

Your baby’s eyelids are more developed now, and the tongue is fully formed. Your baby’s toes are now unwebbed and appear longer. For the first time, the baby’s limbs are capable of purposeful movement.

baby update – 67 days pregnant

This week the baby will curve its fingers around an object placed in the palm of its hand and already has visible finger prints.

morning sickness?

So, I’ve read that a man must have invented the term “morning sickness” because no one who has ever had morning sickness would call it that. In fact, I usually feel fine in the morning, then I think I’m safe and it kicks my butt somewhere around 9pm. Anyways, just thought I’d point that out.

Besides that, everything is going well…had the first doctor visit…they drained me of all of my blood and told me nothing. For some reason I thought it would be an exciting visit with sentimental moments and fanfare…not so much. I guess there will be more exciting visits somewhere along the way.

After a weekend with my best pal, Melissa (and her 21 hour labor stories), I got a little freaked out. Anyone who knows Melissa knows she is slightly dramatic and very descriptive. I got a full account of the intricacies of labor (only a best friend could tell you these things). I guess it’s worth it, because now she has a super cute little boy with chubby cheeks and a great smile. I think they should have her make videos for pregnant women to give it to them straight – you know, all the gory details. I’d watch them.

baby update – 66 days pregnant

we’ve got an olive – too bad it’s not a black olive, those are way better.

By today or tomorrow, the external ears will be completely developed. Your baby measures .87–.94 inches (22–24 mm) from crown to rump — as wide as the face of an American quarter.

baby update – 65 days pregnant

The retina of the eye is now fully pigmented. The baby’s tail is still visible, but stubby, and disappears by the end of this week. The muscles of your baby’s arms and body can already be “moved” by its brain.

baby update – 64 days pregnant

The surface of your baby’s brain is now beginning to develop the rounds and fissures characteristic of humans. By this time, the critical period for the baby’s heart development has ended. The heart will continue to grow and develop, but not at such a fast pace.

baby update – 63 days pregnant

Over the next three days, your baby’s arms will lengthen somewhat and begin bending at the elbow. The fingers and thumb have appeared, and are short and webbed with folds of skin in between. The baby’s arms at this point are only as long as this printed 1.

baby update – 62 days pregnant

Your baby now measures .62–.71 inches long (16–18 mm) and weighs about .033 ounce (0.94 g) — about as heavy as 1/5 teaspoon of water! Even though your baby is surrounded by fluid, it does not drown because it does not depend on its lungs for air. Oxygen comes to the baby from you through the umbilical cord blood.

baby update – 61 days pregnant

By today, your baby’s eyelids have begun to form. Over the next two days or so, your baby’s basic body proportions will change; the trunk will begin to elongate and straighten. For the time being, most of the intestine is found in the umbilical cord since the abdominal cavity is still too small to accommodate this rapidly growing organ along with the large liver.

baby update – 60 days pregnant

The cells that will form your baby’s nose develop around the nasal sacs as the facial tissues fuse to form the rudimentary parts of the face. By today, the toe ridges have appeared on each foot plate. The skin on the foot plate folds down between the future toes, distinguishing each from the other.