14 Weeks and Counting!

Welcome to the second trimester!

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.

We had another doctors appointment last week and they said everything seems to be going great. We got to hear the heartbeat again and right now that is the only way I know that there is a baby in there! Otherwise I am still doing great ... I did have to start shopping for new clothes! There is a little visible bump. We have one more appointment before we have our second ultrasound. The ultrasound will be around the last week in December and at that time we should be able to tell what gender Baby Lash is!! Oh and I'll try and post some "belly" photos later this week!

Happy Anniversary to Grandma and Grandpa Sullivan and Grandma and Grandpa Lash!!

Info from www.babycenter.com