Eat….the….food
Top goal at the moment: Eat. Keep food down. Try not to think about food due to how nauseating that is.
Feeling: Blessed, broody and also useless for not being able to cook certain things. Very, very, very tired.
Amused by: Breasts. I’m not a well-endowed girl, so obviously any increase is noticeable to me and HELLO! They’re all rounded and have these GIANT PURPLE NIPPLES. It’s the sort of change to make you stand looking at them in the mirror for a significant portion of time. Bras are getting tight as during pregnancy your ribcage expands too, apparently.
I’m just absolutely fascinated by the vast array of changes that occur in early pregnancy, and just how inobvious these are until you too join the ‘preggers club’. Finding out things like your breasts hurt, morning sickness isn’t just for mornings, your feet can get bigger, you can smell everything…but all offset in their niggly-ness by this OVERWHELMING love for this little person growing inside of me. I’ve been learning tonnes about how babies grow in the womb and the different stages and have come accross some shockingly miraculous facts.
Like…
Brain waves have been recorded by EEG (electro- encephalograph) in the human embryo 40 days after fertilisation
Nine weeks after conception the baby is well enough formed to bend his fingers round an object in the palm of his hand. In response to a touch on the sole of his foot he will curl his toes or bend his hips and knees to move away from the touching object. At 12 weeks he can close his fingers and thumb and he will open his mouth in response to pressure applied at the base of his thumb.
From a simple, generalised response to stimulation at 6 weeks gestational age, the foetus develops an almost complete range of responses to touches on the skin by 12 weeks.
Brain cells which are essential for consciousness in the adult are known to be present in the foetus by 10 weeks. Nerve fibres which transmit pain impulses are known to be present before fibres inhibiting pain are completed.
I just find it so intruiging that there is a very-nearly-formed little tiny human bobbing around in my womb…and so I keep forcing down my meals because that little person needs all the energy they can get to grow big and strong :-)
Today is my mum’s birthday, and 23 years ago she was (I think) 5 months pregnant with me!
