11w1d - the baby is officially a fetus!

How Mommy Feels:

• Bloated
• Fat
• Nauseated

Morning sickness: yes - mild :(

Cravings: water

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So I enjoyed a nice weekend while the baby went into it's 11th week. And yesterday I was a complete bum. The only thing I did besides sit on my butt and watch pointless TV was to get up and take a shower. Which is a little embarassing to admit but I just didn't feel up to anything. And to top it off I took two naps. One around 10:30 in the morning and another one at 8PM last night - but only for about 20 minutes. And that was so I could have enough energy to watch this show called "I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant" and it aired on TLC about 9 PM.

And the show is about just that - women who carried babies to term or close to term and never knew they were pregnant until they were in the emergency room with a doc or nurse telling them they are experiencing labor. It really boggled my mind that there are women out there who were either A) knowingly oblivious and ignoring the signs their body gave them that they were pregnant. Or B) didn't experience one iota of common pregnancy symptoms to make them believe they may be pregnant. Two of the four women in the show thought they were going through the stages of menopause at a young age - which could be believeable, I guess. And the other two were simply oblivious to the signs their body gave them that they were prego. I certainly felt a difference within days of becoming pregnant. I just assumed that all women would generally be the same and would know their body.

Anyway, Rob was pretty much a bum right along with me. We enjoyed the quiet time and a day to have no obligations to worry about. It was nice, really.

And as for being in my eleventh week, here are the changes the baby is going through:

- Testes or ovaries are completely formed now

- The fingernail and toenail beds are beginning to form.

- The baby weighs about a third of an ounce (or 2 packets of sugar) and is 2 inches long.

- The baby's iris's begin to develop.

- The baby has a big "pumpkin head" basically. The size of the baby's head is nearly half the size of the body. But in the next 9 weeks the baby will grow thirty times in weight and triple in length to compensate for the size of the head. (Can we say, "Amazing"?)

So that's my update for this week. If anything remotely note-worthy happens I'll be sure to write it in. And my second OB appointment is next Thursday so I'll definitely have some more news on baby and Dr. Hansen by then.