It's a..... BABY!

Highlights from today:

• My due date was changed to 12/10/08
  
• Doug was wrong - its not twins
  
• Doug thinks the baby looks like a Gummy Bear
• I was violated with the internal ultrasound wand, then the pap, then she had to check my uterus size.
• We like the doctor, she's nice and seems to know her stuff.

10 Weeks

Well, the puking has become erratic now, not everyday any more. I still feel some nauseau throughout the day but its not as bad as it has been. Knock on wood, but I think we are on the upswing of this morning sickness thing. Tuesday is our first OB appointment (finally!) and according to the girl who made my appointment we should get an ultrasound to date the pregnancy and to see our little one.

10 Week Belly

According to Babycenter: Though he's barely the size of a kumquat — a little over an inch or so long, crown to bottom — and weighs less than a quarter of an ounce, your baby has now completed the most critical portion of his development. This is the beginning of the so-called fetal period, a time when the tissues and organs in his body rapidly grow and mature.

He's swallowing fluid and kicking up a storm. Vital organs — including his kidneys, intestines, brain, and liver (now making red blood cells in place of the disappearing yolk sac) — are in place and starting to function, though they'll continue to develop throughout your pregnancy.
If you could take a peek inside your womb, you'd spot minute details, like tiny nails forming on fingers and toes (no more webbing) and peach-fuzz hair beginning to grow on tender skin.
In other developments: Your baby's limbs can bend now. His hands are flexed at the wrist and meet over his heart, and his feet may be long enough to meet in front of his body. The outline of his spine is clearly visible through translucent skin, and spinal nerves are beginning to stretch out from his spinal cord. Your baby's forehead temporarily bulges with his developing brain and sits very high on his head, which measures half the length of his body. From crown to rump, he's about 1 1/4 inches long. In the coming weeks, your baby will again double in size — to nearly 3 inches.Oh and if your slow like me, you probably don't know what a kumquat is...

Cruise-tastic

So this past weekend we went on a cruise to nowhere out of Seattle with Nick and Stef on Norwegian. It was very fun, although, I have to say, Disney is still easily my favorite way to cruise.

I was going to post some pictures but we can't find our camera... looks like we may have left it in the stateroom. Doug called the cruise line and (obviously) they "haven't found it" right now. Doh!

9 Weeks

Well, I went out and bought maternity pants yesterday. Even with the Bella Band my jeans were too tight! I' sure I'll change my tune in 7 months, but right now I think elastic wastes are about the greatest thing out there. Why do we bother with zipper and buttons anyways?!

According to Babycenter: Your new resident is nearly an inch long — about the size of a grape — and weighs just a fraction of an ounce. She's starting to look more and more human. Her essential body parts are accounted for, though they'll go through plenty of fine-tuning in the coming months. Other changes abound: Your baby's heart finishes dividing into four chambers, and the valves start to form — as do her tiny teeth. The embryonic "tail" is completely gone. Your baby's organs, muscles, and nerves are kicking into gear. The external sex organs are there but won't be distinguishable as male or female for another few weeks. Her eyes are fully formed, but her eyelids are fused shut and won't open until 27 weeks. She has tiny earlobes, and her mouth, nose, and nostrils are more distinct. The placenta is developed enough now to take over most of the critical job of producing hormones. Now that your baby's basic physiology is in place, she's poised for rapid weight gain.

8 Weeks

So, here it is, my first belly pic. Seriously, why is my gut this big already?! In other news, my morning sickness lasts all day and culminates with me puking up dinner around 8/8:30pm every night. Yep, I'm definitely pregnant! Also, we got our stroller in the other day and its all put together. Yeah its early, but we got such a serious deal we couldn't pass it up. And these babies never go on sale! Lucky for us they were getting rid of the 07 models to make room for the 08s.

8 Week Belly

The Stroller - in bassinet position. There is also a regular seat.

According to Babycenter
New this week: Webbed fingers and toes are poking out from your baby's hands and feet, his eyelids practically cover his eyes, breathing tubes extend from his throat to the branches of his developing lungs, and his "tail" is just about gone. In his brain, nerve cells are branching out to connect with one another, forming primitive neural pathways. You may be daydreaming about your baby as one sex or the other, but the external genitals still haven't developed enough to reveal whether you're having a boy or a girl. Either way, your baby — about the size of a kidney bean — is constantly moving and shifting, though you still can't feel it.

Famous Last Words

So last night I was on the computer talking to D about how, while I feel like crap all day long, I have only puked once.

No more than an hour later, up comes a lovely mixture of last night's meatball subs and a mixed berry frozen fruit bar. Lovely.

I will be keeping my mouth shut from now on. (Or until I forget that I just said that, which is likely to be in about 30 seconds the way my brain has been operating lately.)

7 Weeks - According to Babycenter:

"The big news this week: Hands and feet are emerging from developing arms and legs — although they look more like paddles at this point than the tiny, pudgy extremities you're daydreaming about holding and tickling. Technically, your baby is still considered an embryo and has something of a small tail, which is an extension of her tailbone. The tail will disappear within a few weeks, but that's the only thing getting smaller. Your baby has doubled in size since last week and now measures half an inch long, about the size of a blueberry.

If you could see inside your womb, you'd spot eyelid folds partially covering her peepers, which already have some color, as well as the tip of her nose and tiny veins beneath parchment-thin skin. Both hemispheres of your baby's brain are growing, and her liver is churning out red blood cells until her bone marrow forms and takes over this role. She also has an appendix and a pancreas, which will eventually produce the hormone insulin to aid in digestion. A loop in your baby's growing intestines is bulging into her umbilical cord, which now has distinct blood vessels to carry oxygen and nutrients to and from her tiny body."