This week's big developments: Our baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck her thumb! Thanks to brain impulses, her facial muscles are getting a workout as her tiny features form one expression after another. Our baby's stretching out. From head to bottom, she measures 3 1/2 inches — about the size of a lemon — and she weighs 1 1/2 ounces. Her body's growing faster than her head, which now sits upon a more distinct neck. She's starting to develop an ultra-fine, downy covering of hair, called lanugo, all over her body. Our baby's hands and feet are now measure about 1/2 inch long and are more flexible and active.
We made it to the second trimester!! Approximately 6 months from today we will be holding our baby! We received the results of the nuchal translucency test, and the baby scored the highest on the scale. There is a 1 in 2800 that the baby will have down syndrome and 1 in 10,000 that the baby will have another type of disease. We were very pleased to hear that our baby scored high. I feel like I am growing each day, which I don't understand because some days I'm not really eating much. However, if I am not nauseated, I am usually really hungry. The only thing is that I can't eat very much at once, about an apple fills me up.
From what I've read, I don't think I should be able to feel her tiny punches and kicks yet. However, every now and then I get a sharp little pain-like feeling, and I joke that it is the baby kicking me (part of me thinks that it is though). Above is a picture we just took after we went out to dinner with friends tonight. I can't believe I am that big already, maybe that was the cheesecake at dinner.
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