And I introduce you to the newest member of the family! Isn’t he/she beautiful?!
We had our ultrasound today. Great news – everyone is wonderfully healthy and whole! Praise God! We saw the new baby’s heart beating, stomach, lungs, ribs, spine, feet, hands etc. He/she is beautiful. It was really active and moving. It was even sucking its thumb so Anne has a new thumb-sucking partner! Anne was on the bed with me and she kept saying “Baby, hi!” and then the technician showed Anne the baby and the baby waved! It was the cutest thing.
We have 3 pictures of the new wee Bessey for you. In the first two, it’s a profile shot with its arm up and hand near the face – you can see their arm and elbow etc. It looks like their profile is a bit different than Anne’s but it’s hard to tell obviously.
And the third picture is the one of its little hand, waving. You can kind of make out the four fingers and thumb of its left hand.
I feel like we’re hitting one of those growth spurts. The baby is getting bigger and moving around A LOT. Brian can feel him/her move and kick now so it’s been very exciting!
You’re halfway there! The top of your uterus now reaches your belly button and will grow about a centimetre per week. The fetus measures around 6 inches/ 15 centimetres long from crown to rump and weighs about 9 ounces/ 240 grams.
She has started to swallow amniotic fluid, and her kidneys continue to make urine. Hair on the scalp is sprouting.
Sensory development reaches its peak this week. The nerve cells serving each of the senses — taste, smell, hearing, seeing, and touch — are now developing in their specialised areas of the brain. Nerve cell production slows down as existing nerve cells grow larger and make more complex connections. If you’re carrying a baby girl, she already has roughly six million eggs in her ovaries. By the time she’s born, she’ll have about one million.
