12 Weeks

Our baby is the size of a lime this week!  He/she is growing rapidly, as he/she was only the size of a fig last week. This week's development is focused on reflexes - opening and closing their fingers, curling the toes, and making sucking movements with their mouth. The baby also responds to external stimuli and will move in response (even though I can't feel it yet). The eyes and ears are in their proper places, the intestines are slowly settling into place (moving from the umbilical cord into the abdomen...weird, right?!), and the kidneys are starting to excrete urine. From head to bottom, our baby is 2 inches long and weighs 0.5 ounces!

As for me, well, my clothes are slowly starting to get a little tighter in the waist region. The nausea has mostly subsided (except for early in the morning and later in the night time - especially on a night shift!) but the heartburn persists :( I have been feeling pretty exhausted the past few weeks - gee, I can't imagine why - but am hoping I will get some of my energy back soon! Also, as I'm sure Tyler can attest to, I have been slightly emotional/stressed (couldn't possibly be related to the hormones on top of the move to our new place?!) - thankfully, he loves me enough to ride the emotional roller coaster with me :)

At this point, we're trying to get all moved in to our new place and get the boxes out of the way. Once that daunting task is completed, hopefully we can start (slowly!) decorating the nursery and making more plans for the baby's arrival (more accurate budget, looking for furniture, making a registry, finding a babysitter/making future employment plans, etc).

Once again, please continue to pray for our sweet little developing baby, and also for our sanity as we get settled into our new place :)

More updates to come next week!