14 Weeks - A little Lemon :)

It's that time again - time for the 14 week update...I can now officially say I'm into the 2nd trimester! And as you could tell by the pictures that I sent out last night - my stomach is starting to show that.

I finally told work the news - which went just fine! I even came back in on Monday to an article printed out on my chair about the swine flu + pregnant women.

And we're starting to make room for the little peanut. Again, from the pictures there no longer is a bed in our guestroom...Need to make room for a crib.

The little peanut made his way back up to Syracuse for homecoming weekend. And Mark is trying to use the 'We're pregnant' excuse...He was pretty hungover on Sunday after playing too much beer pong - and his excuse for that was "Well, we're pregnant, so I need to drink for two..." And then he decided he wanted to have Chinese food for dinner - and his reasoning for that was - "Well, we're pregnant - and I get cravings too..."

I head to the Doctor's tonight. Maybe today I'll be lucky and hear the heartbeat...

This week's big developments:
Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his thumb! Thanks to brain impulses, his facial muscles are getting a workout as his tiny features form one expression after another. His kidneys are producing urine, which he releases into the amniotic fluid around him — a process he'll keep up until birth. He can grasp, too, and if you're having an ultrasound now, you may even catch him sucking his thumb.

In other news: Your baby's stretching out. From head to bottom, he measures 3 1/2 inches — about the size of a lemon — and he weighs 1 1/2 ounces. His body's growing faster than his head, which now sits upon a more distinct neck. By the end of this week, his arms will have grown to a length that's in proportion to the rest of his body. (His legs still have some lengthening to do.) He's starting to develop an ultra-fine, downy covering of hair, called lanugo, all over his body. Your baby's liver starts making bile this week — a sign that it's doing its job right — and his spleen starts helping in the production of red blood cells. Though you can't feel his tiny punches and kicks yet, your little pugilist's hands and feet (which now measure about 1/2 inch long) are more flexible and active.

Ewww - I'm not looking forward to this - "Meconium, that tar-like, sticky first baby poop, is now loading up your baby's intestines, which means you might want to set aside a bottle of olive oil, one of the few things that will get the gooey poop off of baby's bottom." I'll leave those diapers for Mark to change...