Dear Baby Thompson,
According to babycenter.com at 9 weeks, you are now an inch long — about the size of a grape — and you weigh just a fraction of an ounce. You are also starting to look more and more human and are no longer an embroy....you are a fetus!!!!! Your essential body parts are accounted for, though they'll go through plenty of fine-tuning in the coming months. Other changes abound: Your heart finishes dividing into four chambers, and the valves start to form . Soon we will be able to hear that beautiful heart on a home Doppler....we heard your sister's around 10 weeks....but your placenta is anterior and in the front....so it may take longer to hear it! Your organs, muscles, and nerves are kicking into gear. Your external sex organs are there but won't be distinguishable as male or female for another few weeks. Your eyes are fully formed, but your eyelids are fused shut and won't open until 27 weeks. You have tiny earlobes, and your mouth, nose, and nostrils are more distinct. The placenta is developed enough now to take over most of the critical job of producing hormones. Now that your basic physiology is in place, you are poised for rapid weight gain!
Mommy's waist is thickening a bit. She says she is in the "looking fat stage" and not "looking pregnant stage" due to all the bloating! Her morning sickness and other physical symptoms (sore boobs, constipation, gas, fatigue, frequent peeing) are on and off....not all the time! One thing for sure, she is emotional not only due to hormonal changes but also due to the spotting and the first big bleed from placenta previa and SCH. So far, the spotting is every couple of days, rather than everyday, like it was with Gracyn. We continue to pray that your placenta shifts off the cervix and your heartbeat remains nice and strong! For now Mommy is on modified bedrest. Thank goodness she has short term disability at work!
Not that I am wishing this week away.......but the next time I post a growth update Mommy's pregnancy will be in double digits! Woohoo!
Love you! MiMi
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