14 weeks!
Cutest thing discovered this week: The baby obviously has a little button nose this week, but the reason why it is upturned is so that they can breathe whilst breastfeeding! Isn’t that just an amazing example of God’s perfect design?
(Above: a baby at 14 weeks)
Funniest thing discovered this week: The baby can now not only suck it’s thumb, but also it’s toes and it’s knees! Hopefully it’ll grow out of that one…
This week the baby gets hairy, with lanugo now formed - the soft, downy hair that grows in swirls on their body in the womb, although apparently experts are divided as to what purpose it serves. Many think it is there to help the baby to regulate their temperature, whilst some believe it provides protection from the amniotic fluid after a point. Their eyebrows and head hair should be growing now too (unless, like me, they are born bald…I would not mind this, this is why we have hats for babies and also apparently babies with lots of hair mean more heartburn!).
All of the lovely guides this week all say the same thing: You should feel TONNES better. Uh, no, no one told my body that! Still queasy, but I think this has more to do with the fact that I can now eat WAY less in a sitting otherwise I feel awful, and the tiredness has, if anything, become worse. I had a theory that I was potentially anaemic, but with the amount of orange juice I guzzle and the fact that I’ve introduced more lean red meats into my diet, this is surely unlikely. I suppose we’ll find out in a couple of weeks when the midwife takes another armful!
But, of course, the thing exciting me most is happening before then. THE SCAN! The scan which is now only 9 days away! 9 days! That’s no time at all!
I have to admit I’m a tad nervous, but apparently this is normal. The sort of slight worry that perhaps you’ve managed somehow to make everything up and it’s a scary phantom pregnancy, or that they’ll look and the baby will be…well, it’s not nice to even think about, let alone mention. But everyone has every confidence that all shall be well. There has been no blood, I’ve had all of the hormone overload symptoms, I have a mini-bump which is more pronounced now because hopefully this means my uterus has risen out of my pelvic cavity correctly…so all seems to be by the book thusfar. I hope!
An interesting thing is that I THINK I can feel our little one. It’s VERY faint, which leads me to wonder if I’m imagining it, but it certainly is not gas/a bad tummy. I’ve had gas, intestines, and a bad tummy before in life, and I know what those things feel like. This is not only in a different place, but is a different feeling. It’s moved up today, in fact. The main time I can feel it ‘bubbling’ is when I lie on my front/side sort of propped over a pillow as is my current sleeping position. Everything is really quiet and still and then there is the little burble, and it isn’t stomach wookie! Sometimes, like when I’m sitting now, I can feel a scratchy feeling…I’m not as fond of this feeling because it leads me to fantasise that they’re using their newly grow nails on my insides, and that freaks me out a bit! I can’t wait til we can actually SEE them moving, but am a bit freaked out by that idea too!
None of the guides seem to be able to agree on a size for the baby this week again, so on average they seem to say that they would be the size of a clenched fist if bunched up, but obviously longer, and their head is bigger. I reckon they’d probably on average fit into a man’s hand with their legs starting to dangle off maybe. I hope we find out their actual size next Friday so I can tell you and, of course, how many are in there! I keep joking with Nathan that maybe they are seven of them! :-) We shall see - one would do just fine, but more wouldn’t be a problem - whatever God has planned!
Well, please pray for us all - thank you so much for the prayers for Nathan’s interview - he got the job! Yay!
To watch a video of a scan at 14 weeks, go here.
God Bless!
