12 weeks

From BabyCenter:

How your baby’s growing: Your baby’s hit the 2-inch mark (about the size of a lime) and weighs half an ounce. Her face is beginning to look more human. Her eyes, which started out on the sides of her head, have moved closer together on her face, and her ears are near their final positions on the sides of her head. Your baby’s intestines, which have grown so rapidly that they protrude into the umbilical cord, will start to move into her abdominal cavity about now. Her kidneys are secreting urine into her bladder. Her nerve cells have been multiplying rapidly, and synapses (neurological pathways in the brain) are forming. Your baby may have acquired more reflexes by now, including sucking, and she’ll even squirm if you prod your abdomen, though you still won’t be able to feel her movement for several weeks.

How your life’s changing: Your uterus is rising above your pelvic bones, and your practitioner can now feel the top of it (the fundus) low in your abdomen. Though you probably won’t need maternity clothes for several more weeks yet, you’ve no doubt noticed that your waist is thickening and that you’re more comfortable in looser, less restrictive clothing.

You may also start getting heartburn (also called acid indigestion), a burning sensation that often extends from the bottom of your breastbone to your lower throat. It’s caused by both hormonal and physical changes in your body — and can take the pleasure out of eating a meal or sleeping. Eating small meals and avoiding foods that make the problem worse, such as fried, spicy, or fatty foods, can help.

Start getting heartburn?  ROFL!  That’s been there for weeks already.  Still have the last bits of the ol’ morning sickness.  Seems like the last of it is determined to hang on forever!

And maternity clothes?  Not needed for several weeks yet?  ROFL!  I moved into my maternity pants at 7 weeks.  Seven. Weeks.  And they are so comfy and good.    Seriously, this time around it was like near-instant belly.  Only with all my extra padding, I’m the only one who think it looks pregnant!  I hate this part where you look like you’ve just aimlessly been enjoying your supper a bit too much instead of looking like there was a reason for enjoying that supper!  Oh, well.  As long as I have the comfy pants, who cares? 

Anyway, apart from the being-medicated-into-catatonia thing, I’m doing pretty well.  And I have no idea why BabyCenter is obsessed with food.  Heh.

1. Sadie is freaking adorable. I cannot believe how much she’s grown up lately!  You are going to have your hands full, lady!!  Good luck with that!

   Glad to hear the morning sickness is nearly gone.  yipee!  on with the heartburn.

   Posted by Redhead Mommy  on  08/09  at  09:46 PM

2. I’m just so damned glad to have maternity clothes this time around that look like they were made for ADULTS.

   Back when I was preggo with my boys, all the maternity clothes had duckies and bunnies and dear LORD everything had bows on it.  Um. . .no.  And let’s not forget the dumbest preggo t-shirt ever:  the arrow pointing down with the word “baby”.

   God.  I hated that shirt.

   But yeah-I hear you on the instant belly.  I’m enjoying it.  Aheh.

   (Captcha:  labor.  The harbinger of things to come, hey?  Sheesh.  LOLLLL)

   Posted by Margi  on  08/11  at  04:06 AM

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