Week 8

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How your baby's growing:

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.

Baby name comments

We would love to hear all of your comments to our baby name poll. It's been a lot of fun thinking of what would make a great name for our baby Thomas. Let us know what you think.

Week 7 Cravings

Salt and Cheese are definitely on the menu at our house, Sharons love for them has gone way up.

Week 7

Beginning of Week 7, can't believe the baby has doubled in size!

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How your baby's growing:

The big news this week: Hands and feet are emerging from developing arms and legs — although they look more like paddles at this point than the tiny, pudgy extremities you're daydreaming about holding and tickling. Technically, your baby is still considered an embryo and has something of a small tail, which is an extension of her tailbone. The tail will disappear within a few weeks, but that's the only thing getting smaller. Your baby has doubled in size since last week and now measures half an inch long, about the size of a blueberry.

Week 6 Relaxing

Trying to relax a little with all the craziness so we went to the beach. One of Sharons first pregnancy photos.

Week 6

Feeling Queasy :(

Baby Update:

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How your baby's growing:

This week's major developments: The nose, mouth, and ears that you'll spend so much time kissing in eight months are beginning to take shape. If you could see into your uterus, you'd find an oversize head and dark spots where your baby's eyes and nostrils are starting to form. His emerging ears are marked by small depressions on the sides of the head, and his arms and legs by protruding buds. His heart is beating about 100 to 160 times a minute — almost twice as fast as yours — and blood is beginning to course through his body. His intestines are developing, and the bud of tissue that will give rise to his lungs has appeared. His pituitary gland is forming, as are the rest of his brain, muscles, and bones. Right now, your baby is a quarter of an inch long, about the size of a lentil bean.

Five Weeks

Hello all, starting this baby tracking at week five cause before that we didn't really know :) Going to be posting periodic updates of the happenings for the next few months until our baby is born! Hope you like.

First up is our very first ultra sound! Hard to see exactly but it's there, look real close, closer, not too close.

Five Weeks Old: Due 06/12/2010