Week 7

Hey baby! Today we had visual confirmation of you!!!!

I think about you almost every waking moment - so getting some good news really made my day.

Check you out:

The bottom X is your head and the top X is your tailbone.

      This shows your yolk sac and your heartbeat - going strong a 137 bpm!

There is soooo much information out there to help me know what is going on inside and how you are developing....Here are a couple of cool things I have read over the last few days:

This week starts a period of rapid cellular development for your baby-to-be, who looks like a mini tadpole, with a tiny head and tail. His or her eyes, ears and mouth have begun to form (though they're a little more Discovery Channel "creatures of the sea" documentary than Gerber Baby at this point) Technically, your baby is still considered an embryo and has something of a small tail, which is an extension of her tailbone. The tail will disappear within a few weeks, but that's the only thing getting smaller. Your baby has doubled in size since last week and now measures half an inch long, about the size of a blueberry.

I love blueberries!

If you could see inside your womb, you'd spot eyelid folds partially covering her peepers, which already have some color, as well as the tip of her nose and tiny veins beneath parchment-thin skin. Both hemispheres of your baby's brain are growing, and her liver is churning out red blood cells until her bone marrow forms and takes over this role. She also has an appendix and a pancreas, which will eventually produce the hormone insulin to aid in digestion. A loop in your baby's growing intestines is bulging into her umbilical cord, which now has distinct blood vessels to carry oxygen and nutrients to and from her tiny body.

 

Ok one more - this is from a blog called The Pregnant Chicken - I was laughing really hard last night as I read it   :)

 

Hooray, your baby has paddles and a tail! No, that’s a good thing because the paddles become arms and legs and the tail becomes a tailbone. Your baby’s skeletal structure is almost fully formed and made up of cartilage – like a shark. So you’re carrying a bad-ass shark baby right now. Cool.

What isn’t cool are the pregnancy symptoms you may be experiencing.

You have extra progesterone pumping through you right now. It’s pretty important (hence the name that essentially means “pro gestating”) because it helps maintain the lining of your uterus, suppresses ovulation during pregnancy, stimulates the growth of breast tissue, and relaxes your uterus muscles so you don’t have early contractions, just to name a few.

The downside is that it also makes you retain water so you look puffy, it helps relax all your muscles so you get heartburn and constipated easily, it makes your gums bleed, and it kicks your sweat gland into overdrive so you sweat like a fat man in August which may also lead to zits.

Good times.

Just keep thinking about your wicked, cool shark baby!

Love you baby - Me

Hooray, your baby has paddles and a tail! No, that’s a good thing because the paddles become arms and legs and the tail becomes a tailbone. Your baby’s skeletal structure is almost fully formed and made up of cartilage – like a shark. So you’re carrying a bad-ass shark baby right now. Cool.

What isn’t cool are the pregnancy symptoms you may be experiencing.

You have extra progesterone pumping through you right now. It’s pretty important (hence the name that essentially means “pro gestating”) because it helps maintain the lining of your uterus, suppresses ovulation during pregnancy, stimulates the growth of breast tissue, and relaxes your uterus muscles so you don’t have early contractions, just to name a few.

The downside is that it also makes you retain water so you look puffy, it helps relax all your muscles so you get heartburn and constipated easily, it makes your gums bleed, and it kicks your sweat gland into overdrive so you sweat like a fat man in August which may also lead to zits.

Good times.

Just keep thinking about your wicked, cool shark baby!
- See more at: http://www.pregnantchicken.com/pregnant?tag=Week+07#sthash.1nU3nB4E.dpuf

Hooray, your baby has paddles and a tail! No, that’s a good thing because the paddles become arms and legs and the tail becomes a tailbone. Your baby’s skeletal structure is almost fully formed and made up of cartilage – like a shark. So you’re carrying a bad-ass shark baby right now. Cool.

What isn’t cool are the pregnancy symptoms you may be experiencing.

You have extra progesterone pumping through you right now. It’s pretty important (hence the name that essentially means “pro gestating”) because it helps maintain the lining of your uterus, suppresses ovulation during pregnancy, stimulates the growth of breast tissue, and relaxes your uterus muscles so you don’t have early contractions, just to name a few.

The downside is that it also makes you retain water so you look puffy, it helps relax all your muscles so you get heartburn and constipated easily, it makes your gums bleed, and it kicks your sweat gland into overdrive so you sweat like a fat man in August which may also lead to zits.

Good times.

Just keep thinking about your wicked, cool shark baby!
- See more at: http://www.pregnantchicken.com/pregnant?tag=Week+07#sthash.1nU3nB4E.dpuf

Hooray, your baby has paddles and a tail! No, that’s a good thing because the paddles become arms and legs and the tail becomes a tailbone. Your baby’s skeletal structure is almost fully formed and made up of cartilage – like a shark. So you’re carrying a bad-ass shark baby right now. Cool.

What isn’t cool are the pregnancy symptoms you may be experiencing.

You have extra progesterone pumping through you right now. It’s pretty important (hence the name that essentially means “pro gestating”) because it helps maintain the lining of your uterus, suppresses ovulation during pregnancy, stimulates the growth of breast tissue, and relaxes your uterus muscles so you don’t have early contractions, just to name a few.

The downside is that it also makes you retain water so you look puffy, it helps relax all your muscles so you get heartburn and constipated easily, it makes your gums bleed, and it kicks your sweat gland into overdrive so you sweat like a fat man in August which may also lead to zits.

Good times.

Just keep thinking about your wicked, cool shark baby!
- See more at: http://www.pregnantchicken.com/pregnant?tag=Week+07#sthash.1nU3nB4E.dpuf

The Beginning

Hi baby, lets get started on this grand adventure together! We have so much to share with you and our family - pictures, stories, mishaps, lessons, laughs and love.

Lets start with a little history. Your dad and I have been married for 4.5 years now. We are both Science Teachers - so yes - we are nerdy - but really cool too. :) I think we are pretty adventurous fun-loving folk. We enjoy spending a lot of time outdoors exploring our awesome State of Idaho. We have amazing family and friends - who I'll introduce you to later on. We also have some fur-people in our life - two black Labs - Pearl and Ruby - and a black cat - Booger.  

We set a goal that we would like to earn our Masters Degrees before we took the parenthood plunge. So, soon after we checked that accomplishment off of our life list we began seriously thinking about YOU. It has taken us awhile for all of the stars to be aligned just right. But, it seems that over the weekend of our engagement anniversary this winter - conception occurred!

We are going to be your parents and you will be our kid - so cool.

I like to take a lot of pictures and save specials things.....so rather than start one more boxful of stuff I thought we could start a blog. Written about you and for you. Yes, we will be sharing it with a lot of people soon - but they will be sooooooo excited to get updates about you and to be able to share their love. 

Buckle up baby - Here we go............