Week 8- All About Baby Smith
New this week: Webbed fingers and toes are poking out from your baby's hands and feet, his eyelids practically cover his eyes, breathing tubes extend from his throat to the branches of his developing lungs, and his "tail" is just about gone. In his brain, nerve cells are branching out to connect with one another, forming primitive neural pathways. You may be daydreaming about your baby as one sex or the other, but the external genitals still haven't developed enough to reveal whether you're having a boy or a girl. Either way, your baby — about the size of a kidney bean — is constantly moving and shifting, though you still can't feel it.
Week 8- All About Mama Smith
Baby Bump: I'm pretty sure it's just some bloat, but the other day I tried to suck everything in and it wouldn't budge, so who knows.
Weight Gain: Weight loss actually. I weighed myself at the Red Cross blood center for the first time on November 26th, 131 pounds. I went back on Thursday, December 2nd, and was down 2 pounds, 129.
Maternity Clothes: Nothing right now, but I look forward to making the switch once we get home whether I need to or not. Maternity jeans are sooooo comfy!!
Stretch Marks: Nope
Aches & Pains: The morning sickness is not as bad as it was from weeks 5- 7, but every now and again I still have a twinge of nausea. It's better during the day and worse in the morning when first getting up and at night when we're in bed. The new thing this week (last week) is constipation. I've never in my life been constipated, but why not now? You know, while I'm in another country that doesn't have any of the things a pregnant woman can take or eat so that I can have a good poop. Ahhhhh, it's terrible! My boobs are growing and are still sore, I've had a few headaches worth taking a Tylenol at bedtime for, my hips and ovaries are sore, and I've been very, very, very tired. In fact, that doesn't even come close to describing it.
Sleep: Still having weird and sometimes scary dream that wake me in the night (just this weekend I lost Carter in a shopping mall and was reunited with him 3 years later and Tommy Lee Jones approached me in an aggressive manner on our airplane and said, "Spread your feet!"), but again, I'm able to fall back to sleep.
Baby Movement: Nothing yet, but I look forward to the time when I feel like her foot is so far up in my ribs it's going to come out my nose. :)
Food Cravings/Aversions: THIS, again....I crave Mott's mixed berry and strawberry banana applesauce and Ocean Spray Cran Apple juice like something terrible!!!! I have an aversion to most everything, especially Japanese grocery stores. OMG, it's really bad!
Gender: I talked with Sarah Scadding this past week and she told me she thought Baby Smith is a girl. I still say girl, but Scott is still sticking with boy.
Belly Button: No change
What I Miss: Home, and everything about the States!!!
Looking Forward To: Everything about American food, including food that can un-constipate me! 12 days until we leave!
Energy Level: All I want to do, all the time, is sleep!
Baby Bump Week 8
No comments:
Post a Comment