14 weeks!

This week's big developments: Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his thumb! Thanks to brain impulses, his facial muscles are getting a workout as his tiny features form one expression after another. His kidneys are producing urine, which he releases into the amniotic fluid around him — a process he'll keep up until birth. He can grasp, too, and if you're having an ultrasound now, you may even catch him sucking his thumb.

In other news: Your baby's stretching out. From head to bottom, he measures 3 1/2 inches — about the size of a lemon — and he weighs 1 1/2 ounces. His body's growing faster than his head, which now sits upon a more distinct neck. By the end of this week, his arms will have grown to a length that's in proportion to the rest of his body. (His legs still have some lengthening to do.) He's starting to develop an ultra-fine, downy covering of hair, called lanugo, all over his body. Your baby's liver starts making bile this week — a sign that it's doing its job right — and his spleen starts helping in the production of red blood cells. Though you can't feel his tiny punches and kicks yet, your little pugilist's hands and feet (which now measure about 1/2 inch long) are more flexible and active.

Your adorable little fetus is busy with thumb sucking, toe wiggling, and (not so cute but equally amazing) making urine and breathing amniotic fluid as the liver, kidneys and spleen continue to develop. Lanugo (thin, downy hair) is growing all over the body for warmth.

Belly pic friday

so i thought i would share my progress now that we started the 2nd trimester.



in other news we got the call we were waiting for from the NT scan results, they were great 1 in 10,000 for trisomy 13, 18 and 21(down's syndrome)
Praise the lord i have so much to be thankful for and to know monkey is doing good is such a relief, no i will never stop worrying but it has gotten easier each day.

13 weeks

Fingerprints have formed on your baby's tiny fingertips, her veins and organs are clearly visible through her still-thin skin, and her body is starting to catch up with her head — which makes up just a third of her body size now. If you're having a girl, she now has more than 2 million eggs in her ovaries. Your baby is almost 3 inches long (the size of a medium shrimp) and weighs nearly an ounce.
Your fetus is forming teeth and vocal cords... savor this, their non-functional phase. Baby is approaching normal proportions, with a head now only one third the size of the body. Intestines are in the process of moving from the umbilical cord to baby's tummy. (Much more convenient.)
We saw Dr. B on friday, well actually we just had our NT scan and it went great, everything is looking wonderful and I'm measuring right on. The neck fluid measurement was 1.9 awesome numbers they want to see anything below 3. We also met with a genetic cousnler just to reviw all the test we had done and anwser any questions we had and assess any risk based on family history, bottom line our is low to none for any genetic illness. She said that our risk has gone down to less than 1% of having issues at this point. Also in other exciting news I am officially off of the Prometrium!!!! shots are always going to be there but its a small prize to pay for a huge reward in the end. Our appointments are now once a month. Its nice to be considered normal for now. Also the cervical length is good and Dr.B doesn' think i'll need a cerclage at all. I'm so excited to be out of the the first trimester and to know monkey is normal and healthy and ours to keep!
And now some pictures of monkey:




waving hello!

why I would love a girl

make sure you pause the music player before you hit play on this video!

12 weeks

wow i never thought i would make it here. i keep waiting for the other shoe to drop and making it here has made me belive that maybe there is no other shoe to drop. I'm pregnant and this baby is ours.
I am beyond elated and grateful to GOd for this miracle. i tried to go to church last week and say thanks in person but seeing as i almost passed out(there were no empty sits and while standing my BD dropped pretty fast) so i sat outside on this stone bench and said my thanks from there.
Anyway this is were we are at right now

Week 12: Plum

The most dramatic development this week: reflexes. Your baby's fingers will soon begin to open and close, his toes will curl, his eye muscles will clench, and his mouth will make sucking movements. In fact, if you prod your abdomen, your baby will squirm in response, although you won't be able to feel it. His intestines, which have grown so fast that they protrude into the umbilical cord, will start to move into his abdominal cavity about now, and his kidneys will begin excreting urine into his bladder.

Meanwhile, nerve cells are multiplying rapidly, and in your baby's brain, synapses are forming furiously. His face looks unquestionably human: His eyes have moved from the sides to the front of his head, and his ears are right where they should be. From crown to rump, your baby-to-be is just over 2 inches long and weighs half an ounce.

the Mantras

"Today I am pregnant and I love my baby."

"I am pregnant until someone tells me otherwise."

"My past does not dictate my future. A previous m/c does not mean I will have another m/c."

"Just because something sad is happening to another poster, does not mean it will happen to you." We all know m/c and complications are not contagious!"

"Hope does not make bad things happen" You cannot ‘jinx’ your pregnancy by creating a ticker, getting excited, or telling someone. Live in the positive!"

"There is nothing I can do to prevent a m/c from happening. Worrying yourself sick doesn't prevent a m/c. And if (gods forbid) it were to happen again, I know I will survive."