Week 14

This week officially marks the one month countdown until we get to find out the baby's gender!! We were so excited to hear at our last appointment that we would go ahead an set up that appointment soon, and it will more than likely be Friday, November 21st. This is wonderful news for us b/c that means we will be able to share the news with our families in person once we go home for Thanksgiving!!! Although this update says the baby is only the size of a lemon, I know my cervix is about the size of a cantelope right now (or so the doc says) and therefore the reason that my belly is definitely stretching out there. It is a good thing that mom came in this past weekend so we could get a bella band b/c I have had to wear it several times already! I am not quite ready to give up my normal clothes just yet, so this definitely helps me still be able to squeeze into the bottoms, only without having to button them ha! Baby Isham will be making its first trip to Nashville this weekend and I am so excited b/c it is the first time I will get to see my bestest friends from college and introduce the bump to them in person :) Two of them are expecting in December, so I am glad I am not the only one with this crazy belly popping out haha! Thank you for your continued prayers as I am so grateful to be feeling great! Until next week...
Welcome to your second trimester! This is a big milestone because it marks the end of a critical development period. All the basic structures of your baby's body are formed now. Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck her thumb. Thanks to brain impulses, her facial muscles are getting a workout as her tiny features form one expression after another. Her kidneys are producing urine, which she releases into the amniotic fluid around her — a process she'll keep up until birth. She can grasp, too, and if you're having an ultrasound now, you may even catch her sucking her thumb. Your baby's stretching out. From head to bottom, she measures 3 1/2 inches — about the size of a lemon — and he weighs 1 1/2 ounces. Her body's growing faster than her head, which now sits upon a more distinct neck. By the end of this week, her arms will have grown to a length that's in proportion to the rest of her body. (her legs still have some lengthening to do.) She's starting to develop an ultra-fine, downy covering of hair, called lanugo, all over her body. Your baby's liver starts making bile this week — a sign that it's doing its job right — and her spleen starts helping in the production of red blood cells. Though you can't feel her 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.