8 Weeks

KIDNEY BEAN

I had my first ultrasound this week! I got to see my cute little peanut and hear that sweet little heartbeat for the first time! Shaun didn't come cause it was supposed to just be a quick check up :( So he stayed home with Shaunie. I'm sad he didn't get to get be there but I was thrilled to finally have an ultrasound! The doctor said I was a little further along than they thought. So I'm due December 6th, 2012!

New this week: Webbed fingers and toes are poking out from your baby's hands and feet, his eyelids practically cover his eyes, breathing tubes extend from his throat to the branches of his developing lungs, and his "tail" is just about gone. In his brain, nerve cells are branching out to connect with one another, forming primitive neural pathways. You may be daydreaming about your baby as one sex or the other, but the external genitals still haven't developed enough to reveal whether you're having a boy or a girl. Either way, your baby — about the size of a kidney bean — is constantly moving and shifting, though you still can't feel it.