14 Weeks!

What's up with Babyopolis?

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. (From here.)

What's up with Stephopolis?

The dreaded morning sickness is back. UGH. Apparently, Babyopolis did not get the memo about nausea diminishing in the second trimester! It's not bad (I don't have hyperemesis or anything), but it's enough to disrupt my morning routine.  I'm feeling some uterine 'growing pains' as everything is shifting out of my pelvis and round ligament pains have started. But, overall, week 14 is shaping up fine.

Bullet points!

• How far? I'm 14 weeks 5 days pregnant
• Cravings: Frozen raspberries, cheddar popcorn
• Aversions: Still pork.
• Gender Thoughts: Nothing this week.  
• Workouts: A few walks and a hatha yoga class
• Number of times we've used the doppler: Twice. And found the heartbeat both times :)