14 weeks

Technically I am in my second trimester now. How exciting! It's been 10 weeks since I found out I was pregnant and that time has just flown by! I have been reading that some people can feel baby movements earlier on in their second pregnancy so, I have been laying in bed the last few nights trying to be really still. Last night I felt the baby!!! It's really one of those feelings that you recognize only because you've felt it before. I know I didn't feel Avery move until around 17 or 18 weeks. But this was definitely baby! It's just another reassurance that everything is okay and growing. I go in for my monthly check up on Friday (15 weeks) and I'll get to hear the heartbeat again. I'm looking forward to that too! Then in another month we will have the big ultrasound. We are considering taking Avery with us to that appointment. I think that she would get a kick out of it! We are trying to make her feel like this is a big part of her life as well and not just Mommy and Daddy's. Here is where the baby's progress should be... At 14 weeks the baby is about 3 1/2 inches (the size of a lemon) and weighs about 1 1/2 ounces! The baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck it's thumb! Thanks to brain impulses, baby's facial muscles are getting a workout as it's tiny features form one expression after another. Baby's kidneys are producing urine, which it releases into the amniotic fluid around it — a process it'll keep up until birth. Baby can grasp, too, and if you're having an ultrasound now, you may even catch baby sucking it's thumb.