Ooookay…so I kinda slacked off here (again). I haven’t given poor baby an update in a month! And now baby is SO FREAKING BIG. I can see and feel it moving so much.
Anyway, what’s baby doing, you ask? Well, other than running around like a ferret on my insides, baby is currently:
- still getting fat
- [...]

This week, baby begins to hear! So now I am really tempted to sneak up on my belly with cymbals or something, just to see what happens.
Week Eighteen:
As the nerve endings from your baby’s brain “hook up” to the ears, your baby may hear your heart beating, your stomach rumbling or blood moving through the [...]

This is all Mayo Clinic has to say about week seventeen: fat accumulates.
Seriously. Guess I better go make a pie.

Okay, so I skipped weeks 13 and 14. Bad mommy! Highlights from the last two weeks:
- baby moving in a jerky fashion (can’t feel it yet)
- sucking it’s teeny thumb
- starts making meconium
- mouth and eyes totally formed
And now, for your reading pleasure…week fifteen:
Your baby’s skin starts out nearly transparent. Eyebrows and scalp hair may [...]

Whoops everyone…sorry I haven’t posted in forever. I just finished my surgery rotation last friday (yay!) and so was busy busy busy cramming for my exams. Hopefully I passed! In the meantime, it sounds like the little thing has been growing quite a bit lately–so much in fact that I guess we can now start [...]

Yay!!!! It’s really there! Rahul and I had our first big OB visit today. It was so fun. The doctor was awesome and took lots of time with us, answered all my questions, etc….and since I am TEN WEEKS today, he said that we should be able to hear a heartbeat. And guess what? We [...]

A little belated (Wednesdays are the “milestone” days in my mind…), but here is the latest news from the womb. How weird to think this thing might be moving around already. Then again, I guess there are lots of things moving inside of us all the time that we don’t even notice (like your small [...]

Eight weeks into your pregnancy, your baby is just over 1/2 of an inch long.
Your baby will develop webbed fingers and toes this week. Wrists, elbows and ankles are clearly visible, and your baby’s eyelids are beginning to form. The ears, upper lip and tip of the nose also become recognizable.
As your baby’s heart becomes [...]

Before I bring you this week’s exciting events, I would just like to say once again: I hate surgery. I had such a horrible day yesterday that I started fantasizing about ways I could escape from OR (and hours of mind-numbing boredom). For a moment I seriously considered throwing my shoe into the sterile field [...]

Coming soon to a womb near you…
Just four weeks after conception, your baby is about 1/8 of an inch long. The neural tube along your baby’s back is now closed, and your baby’s heart is beating with a regular rhythm.
Basic facial features will begin to appear, including an opening for the mouth and passageways that [...]