dr. update!!:)

just thought i'd update...i am almost 16 weeks..wow this pregnancy is just a flying!!

i only gained 4 pounds this month..so that made me real happy!!

babies heartbeat, and my blood pressure is great!!

and our dr. told us we would have to wait till 20 weeks to get our level 2 ultrasound..well today i asked very sweetly if there was anyway we could find out at 19 weeks..he said you want to know before Christmas? I said um yes..he said ok we can work that out for you!!

i just giggled== he said andrea..you are too funny:)

so our level 2 ultrasound is scheduled for dec. 22 at 10:15 a.m....I AM SO EXCITED!!

15 weeks!!

At around 4 inches long, crown to rump, your baby now weighs about 2 1/2 ounces. He's busy inhaling and exhaling amniotic fluid, which will help the air sacs in his lungs develop. His legs are growing longer than his arms now, and he can move all his joints and limbs. That means his hands are more functional, too. Sweat glands are appearing, and although his eyelids are fused shut, he can sense light. If you were to shine a flashlight at your tummy, he'd be likely to move away from the beam.

from babygaga!

14 Weeks!!!

All the basic structures of your baby's body — internally and externally — are formed now. Of course, they're still very tiny. Head to bottom, your baby is just 3 1/2 inches long — about the length of a lemon — and weighs about 1 1/2 ounces.
Your baby's body is growing faster than her head, which now sits upon a more well-defined neck. By the end of this week, her arms will have lengthened and will be in proportion to the rest of her body. (Her legs still have some growing to do, though.) She's starting to develop an ultra-fine, downy covering of hair all over her body called lanugo. Her liver starts secreting bile this week, a sign that it's already functioning properly, and her spleen starts contributing to the production of red blood cells.

Your baby's also producing and discharging urine into the amniotic fluid, a normal process that she'll keep up until birth. You still can't feel your baby's movements, but her hands and feet (now half an inch long) are more flexible and active. Thanks to brain impulses, her little facial muscles are getting a workout as she squints, frowns, and grimaces. She can grasp now, too, and she may be able to suck her thumb.

from babygaga.com

13 weeks!!

Your belly may soon be big enough to announce to the world that you're expecting, but your baby is still tiny. In fact, he's only about 3 inches long, crown to rump — roughly the size of a jumbo shrimp — and weighs just about an ounce. Despite being so small, there's a fully formed baby inside your womb now who's much more proportional than he was a few weeks ago. In previous weeks, your baby's head dwarfed the rest of him — but now his head is only about a third the size of his body. His tiny, unique fingerprints are already in place. His kidneys and urinary tract are functional, and he's starting to urinate out the amniotic fluid he's been swallowing.


from babycenter.com

12 weeks

Ok so I'm posting this a few days early;)

Your baby's hit the 2-inch mark (about the size of a lime) and weighs half an ounce. Her face is beginning to look more human. Her eyes, which started out on the sides of her head, have moved closer together on her face, and her ears are near their final positions on the sides of her head. Your baby's intestines, which have grown so rapidly that they protrude into the umbilical cord, will start to move into her abdominal cavity about now. Her kidneys are secreting urine into her bladder. Her nerve cells have been multiplying rapidly, and synapses (neurological pathways in the brain) are forming. Your baby may have acquired more reflexes by now, including sucking, and she'll even squirm if you prod your abdomen, though you still won't be able to feel her movement for several weeks.


from babycenter.com

ob update

i'm back from my ob appointment with happy news:)

lets see i was happy to learn i was wrong about my weight gain...as of today i have gained 7.5 pounds:) not bad for 12 weeks, but i know that will go up and up, especially over Thanksgiving and Christmas:)

i am so glad to have the pap and all that done--uugh--

We get to have our level 2 ultrasound the week of jan. 1- so that makes me happy:)

and since i am having a repeat c-section , dr. said he will schedule it at 39 weeks, so my new date is may 13!!:)

what a happy day!!