How your baby's growing: 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 the small proportions, there's a fully formed baby inside your womb now. Much more proportional than it was a few weeks ago, his head is now 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. As you start your second trimester, most of your baby's critical development will be completed, and your odds of miscarriage will drop considerably. (BabyCenter.com)
Hooray, my baby is the size of a jumbo shrimp! Good thing I don't really like shrimp, or I might be tempted to eat my baby. :P I also read that it's currently practicing making faces inside the womb (seriously). It's still so surreal... I can't believe that I will already be in the second trimester one week from today. YAY!! :)
(P.S. Keep your fingers crossed that second trimester = the end of my "night sickness"... ugh!!! I am SO over that!)
3 comments:
omg! 2nd trimester! damn, that's so fast! the next thing you know, it's going to pop out and going off to college.
anyways, keep updating!!! i love it!
That was our favorite week! We kept calling the baby our little jumbo shrimp for weeks after he was officially that size :) Congrats on the second trimester!
Haha... a jumbo shrimp? I knew this kid was going to look just like me! :)
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