I wore my belly band for the first time today. You use it to keep your pants up and on while letting them be unbuttoned and unzipped. My jeans are fitting fine still but my work pants are just a bit tight when I'm sitting at my desk. So it was really nice to be able to walk around with my pants undone and no one even knew! Yay! So what belly I do have is what I started with but the bloating is what's making things a little uncomfortable. I'm excited for when I'll actually have a baby bump and not just look fat anymore. But since this is my first and I'm a bit larger it'll probably be another six weeks or so. :(
Baby is spoiled already! Our little one has gotten a stuffed bear/blanket from Glacier National Park from my mom, an adorable onsie from Aunt Grandma, and a super cute froggy/turtle toy that hangs on carseats and strollers and sings songs from Andrew's mom. :) So cute! We played the songs for Jackson and Lily and Jack wasn't too sure about it. He flattened himself out and crawled toward it and he would jump back if I moved at all. lol! We'll have to keep playing it for him so he gets used to it.
People have asked if we're worried about how the puppies will react to the baby and the answer is no, we're not worried at all. Our dogs have been around small babies before and they do really well. Jack ignores them for the most part, we know he'll be very protective of our little one but that is okay. And Lillers likes to lay next to the baby and just hang out. She follows them around and just watches them. So cute!
Just two more weeks until my next appointment! I'm so excited and anxious. I just want to know that everything is still going well. I'm sure they are but it's nice to have that confirmation. We still are thinking that we're not going to find out the gender until birth... but... it's so hard when I see all of the super cute gender specific clothes! Andrew is going to have to keep me from caving and finding out. Lol.
Week 11 of Pregnancy
That adorable little alien inside your tummy is starting to look human about now, as you start feeling a bit more human yourself.
Baby's Hair and Fingernails Develop
Slightly more than two inches long now and weighing about a third of an ounce, your fetus is growing by leaps and bounds. And so is his or her head, which is equal in length to the rest of the body (don't worry — all fetuses are top-heavy).
Slightly more than two inches long now and weighing about a third of an ounce, your fetus is growing by leaps and bounds when you are 11 weeks pregnant. And so is his or her head, which is equal in length to the rest of the body (don't worry — all fetuses are top-heavy). Your baby (now about two inches long) has been pretty busy this week, growing hair follicles, fingernails, and ovaries (if she's a girl). She has distinct human characteristics by now, with hands and feet in front of her body, with ears nearly in their final shape, open nasal passages on the tip of her tiny nose, a tongue and palate in the mouth, and visible nipples. What else makes her look human? Those hands and feet have individual fingers and toes (meaning good-bye to those froglike webbed hands and feet). Hooray!
On the crown of that large head (and over the rest of the body), hair follicles are forming. Fingernail and toenail beds begin to develop this week and by next week, the nails themselves will start to grow (so don't forget to add a baby nail clipper to your to-buy list).
Your baby's body is straightening and his or her torso is lengthening (sounds like a yoga pose, doesn't it?). Other poses your baby can assume now: stretches, somersaults, and forward rolls. And while you can't tell this baby's gender by its cover yet, testes are developing if it's a boy and ovaries if it's a girl.
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