Week 16

• Fine hair called lanugo covers your baby, who now measures about 4.3 to 4.6 inches (10.8 to 11.6cm) from crown to rump and weighs about 2.8 ounces (80g).


• Fingernails are well formed and the arms and legs may be seen moving on an ultrasound. Your baby already has his own unique fingerprint pattern!


• Your baby can hold his head erect and he can also make faces with his slightly developed facial muscles. Your baby may practice squinting, frowning and opening and closing his mouth.


• Your baby's bones have enough calcium deposits to show on an X-ray. If your baby is female, her ovaries will be in place in her pelvis and more than five million ova (some of which may be fertilized to become your own grandchildren in another generation!) have formed.

Weight Gain Breakdown: (for what I should gain - I'm only up 3 pounds so far.)

Heartburn???

Last night we went to Chub's fundraising dinner at SDH. After dinner, my chest started hurting - just below my sternum (as it had been doing off and on all day). I thought I had maybe overdone my morning workouts this week. The only thing that seemed to relieve the pain/pressure was to push on the area or lay back semi-reclined. Later I thought that perhaps this was heartburn instead of soreness. Any ideas???

Belly Pics

Alright. You tell me if you can see a difference...

08/08 - One week after we found out.


10/13 - Last week - 9 weeks later

November Appointment

Our next appointment is scheduled for Wednesday, November 26th. We have to go to the hospital for this ultrasound... I was told that I'll have 30 minutes from when I arrive to down 32 ounces of water. Then, my job for the next 30-60 minutes is to keep all of it in my bladder. (That should be fun.)

Two hours after the hospital does their thing, we get to take the ultrasound findings to our doc to review the results. So, since this ordeal is scheduled to take about 3-4 hours out of my day I decided to get it over with early - 7am appointment (6:30am arrival). I was fortunate enough to be able to schedule this for a day that we're out of school so I don't have to use any sick leave!

We're still taking belly pics, but the pics just aren't showing anything... Daniel and I can tell that my belly is bigger, but that's about it.

101408 Ultrasound

We're measuring right on track! 8.93 cm = 14 weeks, 4 days!



A zoom in on the right arm.