Wednesday, April 1, 2009

We have entered the 2nd Trimester!!!

Today is the first day of the second trimester!! We are the size of a lemon this week. Here is the baby center's week 14 update.....

"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."


Also, we got the early screen test results and everything is "normal". We have another appt on April 9th. Things seem to be going along great so far!

11 comments:

  1. Very encouraging update! I notice you using "he" quite a bit in your report. Any significance to that?

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  2. nope, I told you, baby center says one one week and the other the next.

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  3. The Wagners are going to have a beautiful baby!!

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  4. I am the Mario Rampage CHAMPION!! Who is the Jamie girl that likes the wine?

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  5. It's my friend Tim's girlfriend, who are you anonymous??

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  6. I think the girl that likes the wine is pretty! I am.......I am a secret. I shall reveal myself when the time is right. Are wine girl and your friend Tim serious?

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  7. Well then, maybe we will just turn off anonymous commenting.

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  8. I apoligize if I offended anyone. I did not mean any harm.

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  9. not offending anyone, I just want to know who you are??

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  10. I told you sir. I am a secret that will be revealed shortly

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