Your baby is now quite active and his or her muscle responses have been changed from mechanical and puppet-like to smooth and fluid, like a newborn’s. This day marks the end of the third full month of pregnancy — one full trimester.
Archive for May, 2008
baby update – 98 days pregnant
Posted in baby development updates on May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
baby update – 96 days pregnant
Posted in baby development updates on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The bony palate, or roof of the mouth, has been complete for some weeks, the sucking muscles are filling out the cheeks, the tooth buds are present under the gums, the esophagus and windpipe are present, and the larynx, or voice box, is present. By today, the baby’s salivary glands will begin to function. Over [...]
Posted in misc. on May 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
What will it be????????
Cast your vote and let us know what you think.
Baby specs thus far: 170 BPM
Paige’s Symptoms: nausea (mild) and SUPER tired
Paige’s Food desires: Lemonade, Apple Juice, Apples, Graham Crackers, String Cheese, mac and cheese, and ice-cream (not all together).
baby update – 92 days pregnant
Posted in baby development updates on May 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Your baby’s hand is becoming more and more functional. The baby is beginning to move its thumb in opposition to the other fingers. Over the next three days, the external sex structures of girl babies can be clearly distinguished from those of boys.
baby update – 91 days pregnant
Posted in baby development updates on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Your baby’s liver will have begun to secrete bile and the pancreas will have begun to produce insulin. By this time, you may have experienced some back pain.
baby update – 90 days pregnant
Posted in baby development updates on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By today, your baby’s vocal cords will have formed in its larynx, or voice box. In another week, the primary ossification centers have appeared in the middle of nearly all the bones of the limbs. Secondary ossification sites develop in the bones of the knee and the ends of the thigh bones and tibias (bones [...]
baby update – 89 days pregnant
Posted in baby development updates on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By today, all of your baby’s 20 baby teeth and their sockets have formed in the gums. Over the next three days, the intestines will form into folds and become lined with villi (small, fingerlike projections in the lining of the intestines that absorb certain nutrients).
baby update – 88 days pregnant
Posted in baby development updates on May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Over the next three days, the vocal cords will form in your baby’s larynx, or voice box. The baby will not be able to make sounds, however, or cry out loud, because sound travels through air, not fluid.
12 weeks (1st trimester almost over)
Posted in baby development updates on May 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At this point in development, it weighs around 1 ounce (28 g); at the time of birth, it will weigh between 1 and 2 pounds (448–896 g).
baby update – 84 days pregnant
Posted in baby development updates on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The muscles in the walls of the digestive tract have become functional and are beginning to practice the contractions they will make when they have food to digest. Your baby’s growth rate has slowed somewhat. It has doubled its weight in the last week to almost 1/2 ounce (13 g); its length has increased to [...]