This week marks the end of the first trimester! At some point between today and next week, I will officially enter the 2nd trimester (I've read different days). So exciting!
Overall, I am starting to feel much better. However, a bad day or moment will hit me out of nowhere! Today was my first day back at school, and things went well. I'm sad the summer is over, but being back to work will help time go by quicker.
We've set the date for our gender reveal party! We are inviting family and close friends to find out, with us, whether we are having a boy or a girl! It will be Saturday, September 25th. We'll find out with everyone by cutting into a cake - blue icing for a boy, pink for a girl. We can't wait!
Monday I had my 1st trimester screening and 12 week ultrasound. The baby REALLY looks like a BABY now!! His/her heartbeat is holding steady at 170 bpm. It's really starting to hit home! Here is our sweet girl/boy:
Your little fetus weighs as much as half an ounce now, and the crown-to-rump length is about two and a half inches (the size of a large plum — busily working his or her way through the whole produce department). It's hard to believe (especially from the outside, since you're probably barely showing at this point), but your baby has more than doubled in size during the past three weeks. And that's just on the outside — there's plenty going on inside too. The fetal digestive system is beginning to flex its digestive muscle — literally — as it starts practicing contraction movements, a skill your baby will need after birth to push food through the digestive tract. The pituitary gland at the base of the brain has started producing hormones. And the bone marrow is making white blood cells, which will one day help your baby fight infection (including all those germs passed around the snot-nosed playgroup).
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