14 Weeks

Welcome to your second trimester!

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.

Merry Christmas!

Yeah, second trimester! We are so relieved to be at this point in my pregnancy. After trying for three years it is definitely a relief to know that the miscarriage rate drops significantly. 

Since last week, I am starting to sleep a little better at night, so that is good news! Also some good news, I think that I have felt the baby move. It is so hard to tell for sure but I think what I have been feeling is the baby!

Monday we go to the doctor for a checkup so hopefully everything will go well. We haven't heard the babies heartbeat yet so I am hoping that we will be able to hear it on Monday.