10 weeks
08 April 2008 9:22 a.m.
Week Ten* Baby is now called a fetus in "medical terms". You, however, may have chosen the name "peanut," "angel," "jumping bean" or simply "miracle."
* The most critical part of your infant's development is complete. Now you are headed into a period of rapid growth.
* While a bit strange to envision, your baby's head is now about half its length - Soon the rest of the body's growth will catch up but this area is prepared to keep up with the rapid brain development!
* Eyelids fuse shut and irises begin to develop - Eye color is also determined by this point.
* Placenta begins to function this week or next - The placenta is the organ responsible for both the provision of nutrients along with the removal of waste to keep your baby growing strong!
* Your baby will be about 1.22 inch long (3.1cm) and weigh 0.14 ounce (4gm) at the end of this week.
I didn't write this, I copied and pasted it from pregnancy.org so I thought I should share that.
Week 10, woohoo. Quarter of the way done already and less than 2 weeks until my scan. On my main page the ticker says 10 weeks and 1 day whereas this one doesn't. I used different sites but the same dates so I don't get the difference. Weird.
I feel a bit more pregnant this week.
Until now, I have just been feeling bloated but not in the toilet every 10 minutes now, no longer feeling ill.
I thought I was feeling rather normal until I think it was Sunday, the hormones have really kicked in.
Things in the news make me want to cry, anything relating to kids or pregnancy makes me tearful and then this morning, eating my breakfast, I had an overwhelming urge to cry too. It doesn't make much sense right now.
Back to the copied and pasted bit above. In the very first paragraph it mentions names for the blob that is currently going through a morphing stage to something that resembles a human (I love my baby really!!!!) and I have a name for baby #2.
He/she is simply called "S" or "Baby S".
This is because in name conversations th e week we discovered I was pregnant we picked out a boy and a girls name we both liked and they incidently begin with the letter "S". Of course, over the next 30 weeks, this could change (I already have doubts set over boys name S but I am very solid on the girls name.)
Right, I need to do some housework. Back again soon.