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.)
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Awww. Sweet peach. I just love this site's "How Big Is Baby?" link. It's so cute!!
We had a scare on Friday, omg! We went in for our a.m. monthly appointment to hear the peach's heartbeat...however, she couldn't find it on the doppler. Her questions, her continuing to try to find it, and the look on her face made me realize that while it may be perfectly normal in there, they were still definitely going to check it out on the ultrasound to make sure the heart was, in fact, still beating. They couldn't get me into ultrasound until 2:30, though, so we had to go to work between the appointments.
GOD, SCARY! Even though I know this *might* be a common thing to not find the heartbeat at 13 weeks, it is still so scary when it happens to YOU!! I was secretly freaking out although to those that know me well, it may have been obvious I was nervous breakdowning :) The good news is the ultrasound was fine and peach's heart was beating right along! :) Yay! FarmBaby lives on!! Of course I was so happy I was crying in front of the ultrasound lady so hopefully she doesn't think I'm completely crazy :)
So that was our excitement for the week. Even if it was scary, it was still so nice for Kurt & I to see the sweet babe's face, body and heartbeat (yay!) on the monitor. It has changed so much since our last ultrasound at 8.5 weeks. He/she has his/her little hand in front of his/her little mouth. Isn't that so cute??
On a lighter note (well...heavier note, actually), I'm coming to the realization the clothes just aren't fitting so cute anymore so I did buy a bella band to cover the fact my jeans/pants no longer zip OR button. HAHA! I see a Motherhood shopping trip in my future... I have also been working on cleaning out my drawers for our impending move. It's pretty comical to realize it will probably be a YEAR before I fit into most of the stuff again. Yikes!
Love,
~Us~
That's scary! At about 12 weeks, they could only find one heartbeat when I was pregnant with the twins. Horrible! They had me walk around for a while and tried it again a few hours later, but I was totally in panic mode too.
ReplyDeleteThe best "maternity" clothes I bought was not really maternity clothes---Old Navy extra long tanks are amazing when you're pregnant. I wore them all the time. They're long and stretchy---if they covered me at 8 months pregnant with twins, they'll cover anyone!