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Week 9- All About Baby Smith

Your new resident is nearly an inch long —about the size of a grape — and weighs just a fraction of an ounce. She's starting to look more and more human. Her essential body parts are accounted for, though they'll go through plenty of fine-tuning in the coming months. Other changes abound: Your baby's heart finishes dividing into four chambers, and the valves start to form — as do her tiny teeth. The embryonic "tail" is completely gone. Your baby's organs, muscles, and nerves are kicking into gear. The external sex organs are there but won't be distinguishable as male or female for another few weeks. Her eyes are fully formed, but her eyelids are fused shut and won't open until 27 weeks. She has tiny earlobes, and her mouth, nose, and nostrils are more distinct. The placenta is developed enough now to take over most of the critical job of producing hormones. Now that your baby's basic physiology is in place, she's poised for rapid weight gain.


Week 9- All About Mama Smith

Baby Bump:  Still skeptical on this one, but they do say that you show sooner with a second pregnancy

Weight Gain:  Weighed again at Red Cross this past Thursday and I was 58.95 kilograms, or 129.96 pounds, so I gained .96 lbs in a week.

Maternity Clothes: My "big" jeans are starting to fit just right.

Stretch Marks:  Nope

Aches & Pains:  Things are pretty much the same as the last couple weeks.  Morning sickness is still around, as well as constipation, RLP, sore and growing boobs, slight headaches...and the list goes on.

Sleep:  It's been harder to fall asleep lately.  I don't know if it's because of the pregnancy or being excited to leave in a few days.  :)  I'm still having very weird dreams though.  Strangest one from last week was (it's kind of gross, so beware!) an Asian girl testing out sized dildos on me and telling me she was surprised how big my vagina was.  SICK!

Baby Movement:  I'm writing it down that I swear I felt a few movements a few different times today.  First on the subway to Nagoya, then again while shopping, and finally a few different times laying in bed tonight before sleep.  I know it sounds weird to say that I felt baby move at 9 weeks, but I was a freak of nature and felt Carter move at a very early 14 weeks, so it may just be.  It def felt like something "different" and not the usual gas bubbles.  If that's what it was, I'm excited and it makes me smile!

Food Cravings/Aversions:  Cravings: Everything American and from home, food and drink.  Aversions: Anything Japanese, foods and smells.

Gender:  Scott and I still tease about Baby Smith #2 being twins.  I still say girl and Scott now says 2 boys.  Geeze!

Belly Button:  In

What I Miss:  My cat, Brody, family & friends, and everything about home!

Looking Forward To:  6 days until we leave!!!

Energy Level:  All I want to do, all the time, is sleep!

Baby Bump Week 9

Am I crazy, or does this look a bit big for 9 weeks?  I didn't look anything like this until at least 17 weeks with Carter.