10 Weeks Pregnant!

By the end of Week 10 baby graduates from embryo to fetus, which literally means "little one."

Your baby has finally morphed from a little tadpole into, well, a baby. Not only is the face more human-like, but that unflattering "tail" (really just the developing spinal cord) has disappeared, fusing into the spinal column.

Your baby now has discernible fingers and toes, which will explain the steady stream of kicks and punches you'll feel down the line.

Junior's skeleton is starting to grow and harden. The ears are beginning to take shape and the eyelids are no longer transparent. Tooth buds are forming, although your baby won't get any teeth until six or seven (or eight or nine or 10) months after birth.


Baby's brain will make an incredible 25,000 new neurons every minute this week. While you may feel like you're losing as many as he's gaining, we can assure you it's not permanent. "Pregnancy brain," like nausea and bloating, is a temporary symptom that soon shall pass.

If you're baby is a boy, he's started producing that macho hormone testosterone. And whether your baby is a boy or a girl, the kidneys are creating copious amounts of urine. Lucky for you, you won't have to change a diaper for another 30 weeks.


Baby weighs only 4 grams and measures 1½ inches, about the size of a mondo Brazil nut or prune. And it's not just your baby who's growing. Your uterus (womb) is now the size of a grapefruit. You may even be able to feel it above the middle of your pubic bone.


 My Pregnancy Symptoms:

- Larger chest...at times sore
- Generally feeling much warmer
- Bloated
- Dry Lips & skin - especially on my face
- Nausea every day... throwing up even with the medication..worse at night
- Fatigue
- Major Aversion to water
- Tingling Nipples
- Hunger
- My growing belly!

Best Moment Of The Week:

Not being able to "suck it in" anymore. To most it would just look like I am carrying more around my midsection but to me its a whole new world...and a whole new me...

Milestones:

Finding out that a dear person in my life is also expecting literally two weeks after me!

Appointments:

August 30th with Dr. S.

Other Info & Thoughts:

I have not spotted in a week - knock on wood, fingers crossed. Nausea is always there....worse in the evenings. I felt so bad for DH last night...he made a lovely (expensive) meal and then two hours later I was throwing it up. I feel tired all the time. Even after hours of sleeping ...I just want to crawl back in to bed.

DH and I celebrate our anniversary this coming weekend. One year married...wow...it seems like so much longer...probably because so much has happened in the last year. Three weeks from now I will announce on facebook that we are pregnant. I am super nervous about that and am anxiously waiting for my ultrasound appointment on thursday to just make sure everything is fine.

Because I am so sick I am not gaining anything. In fact from the last time I was weighed in at the Dr's office I have lost 3-4 pounds. Not good. The one thing I crave like crazy is juice. And not just any juice...It has to be in juice boxes...orange juice, apple juice, punch...I will drink it all...everything except water that is...still makes me gag. I can get away with a bit of cold milk as well. Milk goes down easier if it is in a steamed milk or hot chocolate. It is hard ensuring I am getting everything I am needed especially with me so sick.

I really wanted a doula and birth photographer but the cost was a little scary...$700...*gulp*. Thankfully I just signed a few more clients and in one signing it paid for then both. Huge weight off my shoulders and one less thing to figure out how we would save for it.

Other then that I am just waiting patiently for my 2nd trimester...I hear things get easier then. Hopefully I will be able to feel and eat a little more like a normal human being. And I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to leave with house without a bucket (just in case I get sick). One thing at a time though! Once again just thankful to be here!