Oh lemon... 14 weeks

Your adorable little fetus is busy with thumb sucking, toe wiggling, making urine, and breathing amniotic fluid as the liver, kidneys, and spleen continue to develop.

This week's big developments: Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and 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 one's hands and feet (which now measure about 1/2 inch long) are more flexible and active.

In other good news...my nausea has been way down this week!! Hopefully it will keep trending in the right direction! We had our doctors appointment on the 2nd and it went really well. I have gained 1 pound!! Our next doctors appointment is October 1st and we will find out if the baby is a little boy or a little girl!!!!!!

Next week we will be in St. Louis for the Alzheimer's Memory Walk! Cannot wait!!


We think going from a PEACH to a lemon is lame....Cannot wait for next week..AN ORANGE!!!!!!!