How your baby's growing: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. His intestines, which have grown so fast that they protrude into the umbilical cord, will start to move his abdominal cavity about now, and his kidneys will begin excreting urine into his bladder.
Meanwhile, nerve cells are multiplying rapidly, and in your baby's brain, synapses are forming furiously. His face looks unquestionably human: His eyes have moved from the sides to the front of his head, and his ears are right where they should be. From crown to rump, your baby is just over 2 inches long, about the size of a lime, and weighs half an ounce.- babycenter.com
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The morning sickness has eased away almost completely- my worst episode came just at the end of week 10. My lime is making me exhausted- but I get random bouts of energy that allow me to cook and clean almost as much as I did before!
This week I've discovered prenatal yoga... I had some gas pains that made me desperate for relief and I searched the Internet and found that lots of women find that yoga relieves gas pains. It worked! Some of the poses are so funny but challenging- one of them is a squat, but you stretch your arms above your head and bring your arms down like you are chopping wood. haha
I can definitely tell things are growing- but only in the tummy. I'm still struggling to gain my weight back- so my pants are baggy in the legs and tush... but I have to unbutton them when I sit down! haha
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