12 Weeks Today ~

Here is the next update on the baby for the week.

Even though your little Einstein’s body is still growing quite rapidly and is about 2 inches long right now, the overall super-speedy growth of their amazing brain continues to leave the head proportionately larger than the body— and is actually slightly more than one third of their total body mass! The head and neck are still straightening at this point as can be seen by their little chin lifting off of the chest. Your baby is also actively rehearsing “breathing” by using amniotic fluid to prepare the lungs for future air respiration. Your baby may have acquired more reflexes by now, including sucking, and they'll even squirm, though you still won't be able to feel their movement for several weeks.
The big news: your little pooper is now officially going to need diapers! Although a majority of the waste produced is transferred to the mother’s system for discharge (to avoid lingering in the amniotic sac), some urine is released to the amniotic fluid and your baby will actually breathe it in before passing it on to your for discharge. Not to worry, urine--in this particular form is actually harmless to your child.

I have been starting to feel better. The nausea is starting to subside, I just have to eat as soon as I start to get hungry because then I will become nauseous. All is good. We are continuing to work on the house, we have to get other things done before we can start on the baby's room because everything in there has to go somewhere else.