From Baby Center: Welcome to your second trimester! This week’s big developments: Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee (ewww!), 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…

From Baby Center: 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. Your baby is almost 3 inches long (the size of a medium shrimp) and weighs nearly an ounce. This is the last week of your first trimester, and your risk of miscarriage is now much lower than earlier in pregnancy. Next week marks the beginning of your second trimester, a time of relative comfort for many women who see early pregnancy symptoms such as morning…

From Baby Center: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. (after we read this, I started to poke both sides of my belly and laughed that the baby didn’t know which way to move. Kenny didn’t think it was very funny!) Meanwhile, nerve cells are multiplying rapidly, and in your baby’s brain, synapses are forming furiously. His face looks unquestionably human: His eyes have…

Ok. Well I guess it wasn’t necessarily bragging, but for the last few days I had been feeling relatively good and have been telling everyone that I think I am finally over my morning (all-day) sickness. Tonight the baby had other plans and sent me rushing once again to the bathroom. Nice. Sorry if this is TMI, but I am writing this blog as more of a journal and I want to remember every bit about the pregnancy… even the not-so-great parts 🙂

Ok. Well I guess it wasn’t necessarily bragging, but for the last few days I had been feeling relatively good and have been telling everyone that I think I am finally over my morning (all-day) sickness. Tonight the baby had other plans and sent me rushing once again to the bathroom. Nice. Sorry if this is TMI, but I am writing this blog as more of a journal and I want to remember every bit about the pregnancy… even the not-so-great parts 🙂

From BabyCenter: Your baby, just over 1 1/2 inches long and about the size of a fig, is now almost fully formed. His/Her hands will soon open and close into fists, tiny tooth buds are beginning to appear under the gums, and some bones are beginning to harden. The baby is already busy kicking and stretching, and his/her tiny movements are so effortless they look like water ballet. These movements will become more frequent as his/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…

From BabyCenter: Though your baby is barely the size of a kumquat — a little over an inch or so long, crown to bottom — and weighs less than a quarter of an ounce, he has now completed the most critical portion of his development. This is the beginning of the so-called fetal period, a time when the tissues and organs in his body rapidly grow and mature. He’s swallowing fluid and kicking up a storm. Vital organs — including his kidneys, intestines, brain, and liver (now making red blood cells in place of the disappearing yolk sac) — are in place and starting to function, though they’ll continue to…