How your baby’s growing:
Your baby is now 5/8 of an inch long, about the size of a kidney bean. She’s constantly moving and shifting, although you won’t be able to feel these womb wiggles for several weeks yet. Her embryonic tail is disappearing, and her eyelids practically cover her eyes. Still slightly webbed, her fingers and toes are growing longer. Her arms have lengthened, too, and her hands are now flexed at the wrist and meet over her heart. Her knee joints have formed, and her feet may be long enough to meet in front of her body. With her trunk straightening out, her head is more erect. Breathing tubes extend from her throat to the branches of her developing lungs. The nerve cells in her brain are also branching out to connect with one another, forming primitive neural pathways. Though you may be daydreaming about your baby as one gender or another, the external genitals still haven’t developed enough to reveal whether you’re having a boy or a girl.
How we’re doing:
Not alot has really changed since last week. Although, Lori thinks that she’s starting to show a tiny bit already. I can see what’s she talking about too. She says that “they” say that you start to show faster after your first pregnancy. In the next month or so, she should really start to show since at that point last time, she was beginning to show some.
The exhaustion hasn’t been horrible like it was before. But, she’s still getting pretty tired during the day.
Craving: Her new craving is Coke. She didn’t used to like to drink Coke at all. In fact, she pretty much hated it. Then, all of the sudden, the other day, she says “God, I want some Coke!” She got a glass of ice and opened a 2-liter of Coke that I had in the kitchen. She said that she loved it! She didn’t drink the whole 2-liter, although, I’m sure that she wanted to by the sounds of it.
She is also still craving meat. The doctor thinks that it may be because her body is deficient in iron. We’ll find out when she gets the results back from her blood work that was done at her last doctor’s visit.
