I'm just going to call the baby Addison in an attempt to forshadow the baby's gender...So these aren't much to look at just yet...but it was nice to have an ultrasound and see that something is indeed residing in there...as I still am not feeling very pregnant yet...
Stats were:
9 weeks and 1 day (as of yesterday so 9 weeks and 2 days today)
187 bpm for heartrate
He/She also had their little arm buds flapping around
The black part that the baby is lying in that looks like a kidney bean is the amniotic sac filled with fluid...I initally thought that was my uterus but I guess my uterus is the outer white wall around it.
Since I didn't post last weeks 8 week update since I was in Oklahoma, I will post that below along with week 9's update.
Week 8:
How your baby's growing: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 9:
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.
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