Week 9

Your Baby’s Development

Week nine heralds the onset of a critical stage when your baby’s muscles, nerves and organs are forming. Baby’s now grown to about peapod size, and weighs a little less than half an ounce. She’ll move away if you press against the uterine wall when you touch your belly, but you won’t be able to feel her moving for several more weeks.

While Baby’s developing quickly, it’s still almost impossible to tell on ultrasound whether you’re going to have a boy or a girl, although genitals are beginning to develop.

By week nine, she’s also:

• Growing by leaps and bounds. Her head is now quite large compared to the rest of her body, and curves onto her chest. Baby’s arms have grown, her hands are now flexed at the wrists, and her legs are lengthening. Her feet may be long enough to meet in front of the body.
• Developing clearly visible fingers and toes.
• Continuing to develop her digestive system.
• Developing eyelids that are beginning to cover the eyes and fuse together (Baby’s eyes won’t open until about week 27).
• Completing development of the inner and external ears.
• Experiencing the first nerve connections in the brain, although she’s far from being conscious.

That is right, we are expecting #2 and couldn’t be more happy!!!!  It has been a long and emotional road, but we kept our faith, and we are so excited to be adding to our family.  Due on Nate’s birthday too!

And today is the 1 year anniversary of the day I started this blog, so I decided to give it a little facelift in addition to our big announcement, whatcha think?  And a big thanks to Paul for making it happen!!!

Well, we had a very rainy 4th of July this year, so no fun pictures – but I did get a few – B loved that everyone threw candy at him!

The goods

Ben & Loren rode in both the Edgewood and the Ft. Mitchell Parades for Kathy Groob’s Senate campaign.  I wish they would have had a better day!

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