Thursday, April 29, 2010

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.

2 comments:

  1. I remember feeling GREAT from week 14 to week 34 or so with my first. Get ready to LOVE this part of the pregnancy. There's nothing like it! :)

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  2. I'm very excited- they say the 2nd trimester is a DREAM. I cannot wait to feel the baby kick!

    Congrats on being and Auntie again!!! I checked out Jennie's blog and saw pics. what a cutie. We're not going to find out the sex either- we want to be surprised. :)

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