| Thursday, December 11, 2003 14 weeks along (3 months and a half) Baby's development this week: Lanugo should be growing--t(hat's that weird fuzzy looking hair that grows on a baby) fingerprints have appeared, height is around three and a half inches, organs are mature, baby's heart beats at twice the rate of the mother's, bending of fingers and clenching of fists is now possible, neck is getting longer, skin is transparent (ew!!!), he/she is producing URINE, head hair and eyebrows are now growing. ME: I've been an emotional wreck this week. If I'm not crying over one thing, it's something else. I cried while watching Trista and Ryan get married on tv, I cried over dropping my camera, I cried over Reggie hurting his eye, I cried over the lesson of the day over the intercom today---Actually, I started sobbing! In class! My kids thought I was wacked. It was the story about the little boy who was asked if he would donate his blood to his sister because she needed it to survive some kind of disease that she had. He was the only matching blood type or something. He thought about it a long time and finally nodded, "If it will save my sister, I will." When she was getting better at the hospital, he asked the doctor with an ashen face, "When will it start happening?" The doc asked, "What?" The kid asked, "When will I start dying?' The kid thought he was gonna die when he gave his blood to his sister and he had already decided to give her life even if it meant he died. I just bawled. What a mess. ********** I've been breathing heavier at night and snoring more. Chris pointed this out to me. ********* Mom has started pulling my shirt up over my belly to check on the size of it lately. She is funny. It's like my belly doesn't really belong to me anymore. ***** There's no linea negra present yet. That's the line preg. ladies get that goes up and down their belly. I read that that might start around this time, but nope, it hasn't. You are also supposed to start feeling the baby move around some now. It is supposed to be like flutters. I wonder if what I'm feeling down there is the baby. It's hard to describe. I don't really call it a flutter, it's like a squiggle. Hell, maybe it's gas. I guess I will let you know when I know for sure if I felt it. **** Happy Birthday to my sweet husband, Chris, today. He's 29! Over and out. last next |
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| This reminds me of something out of Poe...."For the love of God, Montressor!" |