Of course...
...now that I've told everyone, I'm no longer "Jessica." I'm "mama" or "prego" or "baby lady."
posted by Jessica @ 5:25 PM
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The Kidney Bean
A baby blog for everyone to keep track of what's going on with our little kidney bean.
Due date: June 29, 2006
Shower: May 13th
Thursday, December 15, 2005
Milestones
- Two weeks: conception occurred (during the 40 weeks of her pregnancy, a mommy is actually pregnant for only 38 weeks)
- Three weeks: our kidney bean (K.B.) was a little ball of cells called a blastocyst
- Four weeks: K.B. became an embryo and started making me feel queasy
- Five weeks: K.B.'s heart started beating
- Six weeks: K.B. started moving
- Seven weeks: K.B. started to develop teeth
- Eight weeks: K.B. grew to the size of a kidney bean :)
- Nine weeks: K.B.'s tail disappeared
- Ten weeks: K.B. became a fetus
- Eleven weeks: K.B.'s webbed hands and feet separated to form fingers and toes
- Twelve weeks: K.B.'s little kidneys started working
- Thirteen weeks: K.B.'s unique fingerprints were in place
- Fourteen weeks: K.B. and Mommy started the second trimester!
- Fifteen weeks: K.B. was able to sense light through his/her fused eyelids and could move away if I shined a flashlight at my stomach
- Sixteen weeks: K.B. was about 4 1/2 inches head to bottom and pumped 25 quarts of blood each day
- Seventeen weeks: K.B.'s hearing began to develop
- Eighteen weeks: K.B. was roughly 5 1/2 inches head to bottom and weighed seven ounces
- Nineteen weeks: K.B. sprouted hair on his/her scalp
- Twenty weeks: K.B. was 6 1/2 inches from head to bottom and ten inches from head to heel
- Twenty-one weeks: K.B.'s eyelids and eyebrows were fully developed
- Twenty-two weeks: K.B. developed teeth buds
- Twenty-three weeks: K.B. was eleven inches long and weighed more than a pound
- Twenty-four weeks: K.B.'s taste buds were developing
- Twenty-five weeks: K.B. was about thirteen-and-a-half inches and weighed a pound and a half
- Twenty-six weeks: K.B. could hear better all the time as the nerve pathways in its ears continued to develop
- Twenty-seven weeks: K.B.'s brain tissues developed further
- Twenty-eight weeks: K.B. had eyelashes
- Twenty-nine weeks: K.B. weighed 2 1/2 pounds and was 15 inches long
- Thirty weeks: K.B. weighed almost three pounds and had 20/400 vision
- Thirty-one weeks: K.B. weighed over three pounds and was 16 inches long
- Thirty-two weeks: K.B. grew to nearly four pounds and was almost 17 inches long
- Thirty-three weeks: K.B.'s bones began to harden
- Thirty-four weeks: K.B.'s central nervous system was still maturing, but its lungs were fairly well developed
- Thirty-five weeks: K.B.'s kidneys were fully developed and its liver could process some waste products
- Thirty-six weeks: K.B. is gaining about an ounce a day now
Previous Posts
- The big announcement
- Can you see the family resemblance?
- Thanksgiving announcement
- My first OB visit
- My first ultrasound
- Pregnancy test
1 Comments:
I was always referred to as 'mamma to be'. I hated it!
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