10 weeks

OUR BABY HAS BEEN UPGRADED TO A FETUS!! SO much development has taken place that it's no longer an embryo but a full-blown BABY! I'm so excited!! Now, this baby just has to grow, grow, GROW!

In Mommy News, I am finally feeling more human! Still fatigued but the nausea is WAY less and I'm eating and functioning more like my normal self. Just this past weekend, it started letting up and now I've been about 90% nausea-free for about five days!

Here's me this past Sunday after church, sporting a teeny lil' baby bump that's pretty much all fat and gas. At least my fat is round!



My clothes still fit cuz I was big to begin with--but I definitely prefer loose! I don't really have maternity pants, anyway, and it hasn't truly cooled off yet so I'm good so far. I'd love an excuse to shop, though! "But nothing fits, Honey!! You want me to wear pants, don't you??"

I have my second OB appointment on Tuesday which is exciting because there's a chance we'll get to hear a heartbeat and I have a ton of questions for her...but then again, if I don't get to hear the heartbeat, I'll be super-disappointed. This pregnancy still has a definite surreal quality to it that would be helped a lot by knowing there's a baby living inside me!!

Here's some fun images of 10-week old fetuses.

This is a model like my mom shows pregnant moms at the crisis pregnancy center where she volunteers. The mother-to-be gets to hold this model and see how well-formed a baby is at just 10 weeks.



This one is cool, too.



Here's the official one for this week.



And here's the info. for this week:

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.