Today we celebrate because I am officially out of my first trimester! Hooray!
I am feeling great and so excited about getting started on the nursery. This weekend my parents are coming up from Columbia to help install a ceiling fan and some additional shelving in the baby's closet. I have included a photo of the belly as well as some details of how the baby is developing this week.
19 more days till we find out the sex!
Baby Curtis can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his/her thumb! Thanks to brain impulses, his/her facial muscles are getting a workout as its tiny features form one expression after another. The kidneys are producing urine, which releases into the amniotic fluid around him/her — a process he/she will keep up until birth.
In other news: Baby Curtis is stretching out. From head to bottom, he/she measures 3 1/2 inches — about the size of a lemon — and he/she weighs 1 1/2 ounces. Baby Curtis' body is growing faster than his/her head, which now sits upon a more distinct neck. By the end of this week, his/her arms will have grown to a length that's in proportion to the rest of his/her body. Baby Curtis is starting to develop an ultra-fine, downy covering of hair, called lanugo, all over his/her body. His/her liver is starting to making bile this week — a sign that it's doing its job right — and his/her spleen starts helping in the production of red blood cells. Though I can't feel his tiny punches and kicks yet, my little one's hands and feet (which now measure about 1/2 inch long) are more flexible and active.
In other news: Baby Curtis is stretching out. From head to bottom, he/she measures 3 1/2 inches — about the size of a lemon — and he/she weighs 1 1/2 ounces. Baby Curtis' body is growing faster than his/her head, which now sits upon a more distinct neck. By the end of this week, his/her arms will have grown to a length that's in proportion to the rest of his/her body. Baby Curtis is starting to develop an ultra-fine, downy covering of hair, called lanugo, all over his/her body. His/her liver is starting to making bile this week — a sign that it's doing its job right — and his/her spleen starts helping in the production of red blood cells. Though I can't feel his tiny punches and kicks yet, my little one's hands and feet (which now measure about 1/2 inch long) are more flexible and active.
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