- Your baby-to-be’s ears have migrated closer to their final destination on either side of his cute little head.
- Your baby’s head accounts for about half of his body length. Wow!
- Bye-bye, webbed hands and feet. Your LO's fingers and toes are separating and looking like real baby parts, and fingernail and toenail beds are beginning to develop.
Slightly more than one-and-a-half inches long now and weighing about a quarter of an ounce, your baby has been pretty busy growing this week. While you can't tell this baby's gender by its cover yet, ovaries are developing if it's a girl. And by week 11 of pregnancy, baby has distinct human characteristics: hands and feet in front of her body, ears nearly in their final shape, open nasal passages on the tip of her tiny nose, a tongue and palate in the mouth and visible nipples. Hair follicles are forming on the crown (as well as over the rest of the body). What else makes your baby look human? Those hands and feet have individual fingers and toes (meaning goodbye to those frog-like webbed hands and feet). Meanwhile, fingernail and toenail beds begin to develop this week; in the next few weeks, the nails themselves will start to grow (so don't forget to add a baby nail clipper to your to-buy list).
At the same time, your baby's body is straightening and her torso is lengthening (sounds like a yoga pose, doesn't it?). Other poses your baby can assume now: stretches, somersaults and forward rolls.
How I'm doing:
- Nausea and vomiting have almost completely gone away. I did have 2 bouts of gagging today, but I believe those were induced by stress rather than morning sickness- so Im super grateful for that.
- My energy seems to be increasing a small amount. Im still pretty tired most days, but am not taking quite as many naps.
- My appetite has increased, but Im still having trouble with my weight gain. Not to put my business out there, but the reality of it is Im having a struggle maintaining 115 lbs. I was only 112 lbs this morning and have been struggling to gain any more weight. My doctor wanted me at 115 lbs starting off, which I wasn't, so I've been trying to play catch up- Im stoked for the holidays to come so that I can stuff my face and get pleasantly plump!
- That all being said- my belly is getting bigger as I've already said, so my jeans-while they still button, are not comfortable, so I wear them unbuttoned with a belly band. I bought a pair of maternity jeans the other day and they just fall off, so they are going to have to go in the closet for a bit. Maternity shirts are starting to work though, so at least that is going in my favor!
