Apple

Our Baby at 15 Weeks:

Your growing baby now measures about 4 inches long, crown to rump, and weighs in at about 2 1/2 ounces (about the size of an apple). She's busy moving amniotic fluid through her nose and upper respiratory tract, which helps the primitive air sacs in her lungs begin to develop. Her legs are growing longer than her arms now, and she can move all of her joints and limbs. Although her eyelids are still fused shut, she can sense light. If you shine a flashlight at your tummy, for instance, she's likely to move away from the beam. There's not much for your baby to taste at this point, but she is forming taste buds. Finally, if you have an ultrasound this week, you may be able to find out whether your baby's a boy or a girl! (Don't be too disappointed if it remains a mystery, though. Nailing down your baby's sex depends on the clarity of the picture and on your baby's position. He or she may be modestly curled up or turned in such a way as to "hide the goods.")

(courtesy of www.babycenter.com)

More videos to follow.....

Gavin Moments

Here's a snipit of our weekend.  Enjoy!

Lemon

Our Baby at 14 Weeks:

This week's big developments: Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his thumb! Thanks to brain impulses, his facial muscles are getting a workout as his tiny features form one expression after another. His kidneys are producing urine, which he releases into the amniotic fluid around him — a process he'll keep up until birth. He can grasp, too, and if you're having an ultrasound now, you may even catch him sucking his thumb.
In other news: Your baby's stretching out. From head to bottom, he measures 3 1/2 inches — about the size of a lemon — and he weighs 1 1/2 ounces. His body's growing faster than his head, which now sits upon a more distinct neck. By the end of this week, his arms will have grown to a length that's in proportion to the rest of his body. (His legs still have some lengthening to do.) He's starting to develop an ultra-fine, downy covering of hair, called lanugo, all over his body. Your baby's liver starts making bile this week — a sign that it's doing its job right — and his spleen starts helping in the production of red blood cells. Though you can't feel his tiny punches and kicks yet, your little pugilist's hands and feet (which now measure about 1/2 inch long) are more flexible and active.

(courtesy of www.babycenter.com)

Shrimp

Our Baby at 13 Weeks:

Fingerprints have formed on your baby's tiny fingertips, her veins and organs are clearly visible through her still-thin skin, and her body is starting to catch up with her head — which makes up just a third of her body size now. If you're having a girl, she now has more than 2 million eggs in her ovaries. Your baby is almost 3 inches long (the size of a medium shrimp) and weighs nearly an ounce.

(courtesy of www.babycenter.com)

BABY POOL!!!

Hello Everyone!

You may or may not have noticed a new addition to my blog.  It's called ExpectNet! and it's an online baby pool.  All you have to do it click on the box (or I'll provide the web link at the bottom) and you make a guess of our baby's:

Gender
Birth Weight
Birth Length
Date of Birth
Time of Birth

It's something fun to do for the next 6 1/2 months!  After the baby is born, I will have a prize for the winner.  Apparently there's a point system scale which I will post below. 

If you guess before our anatomy ultrasound, you will not be penalized for the wrong gender.  I will lock out the game on March 15, 2012.  Happy Guessing!

Once the baby is born, those guesses are compared to the birth stats to determine an overall winner and a winner in each category. Penalty points are assigned depending on how far the guess is from the actual value. To calculate a player's overall rank, the points from each category are totalled. Points are assigned as follows, however they can be changed by the game host:

• incorrect gender: 0 points
• birth date & time: 5 points/hour
• weight: 5 points/ounce or 0.2 points/gram
• length: 10 points/inch or 4 points/centimeter

The winner is the person with the fewest points. This is one of many possible methods of calculating an overall winner. For a game with multiple births, an overall winner is calculated for each baby.  

http://www.expectnet.com/game.php and enter FLBABY2 as the Game Name on the left-hand side.

Lime

Our Baby at 12 Weeks:

The most dramatic development this week: reflexes. Your baby's fingers will soon begin to open and close, his toes will curl, his eye muscles will clench, and his mouth will make sucking movements. In fact, if you prod your abdomen, your baby will squirm in response, although you won't be able to feel it. His intestines, which have grown so fast that they protrude into the umbilical cord, will start to move into his abdominal cavity about now, and his kidneys will begin excreting urine into his bladder.

Meanwhile, nerve cells are multiplying rapidly, and in your baby's brain, synapses are forming furiously. His face looks unquestionably human: His eyes have moved from the sides to the front of his head, and his ears are right where they should be. From crown to rump, your baby-to-be is just over 2 inches long (about the size of a lime) and weighs half an ounce.

(courtesy of www.babycenter.com)

And here's a little video from Gavin's point of view:

Fig

Our Baby at 11 Weeks:

Your baby, just over 1 1/2 inches long and about the size of a fig, is now almost fully formed. Her hands will soon open and close into fists, tiny tooth buds are beginning to appear under her gums, and some of her bones are beginning to harden.
She's already busy kicking and stretching, and her tiny movements are so effortless they look like water ballet. These movements will become more frequent as her body grows and becomes more developed and functional. You won't feel your baby's acrobatics for another month or two — nor will you notice the hiccupping that may be happening now that her diaphragm is forming.

(courtesy of www.babycenter.com)