Week 10

According to www.whattoexpect.com...

Your baby's growth is fast and furious now. He or she is nearly an inch and a half long and the size of a prune, but not nearly as shriveled (even with all the time it spends in water). In fact, your baby is really taking a human shape now. Bones and cartilage are forming, and small indentations on the legs are developing into knees and ankles. The arms (complete with elbows) can flex already, but don't run to the store for a baseball bat just yet. Though your baby's arms are taking shape and getting stronger, each one is only about the size of this number 1.

The tooth bud fairy is making her appearance this week, heralding the arrival of your baby's little choppers, which are forming under the gums. (Those pearly whites won't break through the gums until your baby is close to six months old). Other systems are go, too. Your baby's stomach is producing digestive juices, the kidneys are producing larger quantities of urine, and, if your baby's a boy, he's already producing testosterone (yikes!).

In a couple weeks I have another checkup and hopefully my nurse practitioner will be able to detect our baby's heartbeat with a machine called a Doppler. The reality of having a human being growing inside of me hasn't entirely sunken in...but I think once I hear his or her heartbeat it will feel more real. In three weeks we're going to our first ultrasound appointment. Hopefully they give us pictures or a video of the ultrasound that I can upload to the blog.

Thank goodness the ketchup cravings have stopped! I ended up eating a whole bottle of ketchup with hamburgers, fries, meatloaf, and omelettes. Gross.

My waist has grown to 32 inches around! And my boobs aren't fitting into my 32A bras anymore...for the first time in my life I feel like a real woman (sniggle sniggle)...seriously though, my whole life I've been plagued by a boyish figure and pepperoni boobs. These new curves are a welcome change.