It’s week nine and I apologize for my lack of posting but as any mother knows energy in the first trimester is limited and other things have had to take top priority over my blog. Please hang with me and I will hopefully be back in my normal blogging routine soon. This week I had my first prenatal appointment and the due date was set for November 5th. I am feeling more tired this week and needing a lot of protien rich foods to keep me going. If I go too long I get all shaky and sick and just plain nasty feeling. But if I am careful and keep my protien levels high I am actually feeling better with this pregnancy than I ever have with the other babies. Well, enough about me here is what you really want to hear about THE BABY!
Baby 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.
Here is what baby looks like this week.
It is so amazing to see that it actually “looks” like a baby already. Isn’t our Creator God amazing!
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