9 weeks

My baby doesn't have a tail! My baby doesn't have a tail!!

Yippee!!!

I love it when the tail is gone and my baby starts looking like an actual baby. The gecko is gone! :)

This week has started off a lot better. I'm still pretty nauseous, but not as bad as last week. How awesome is that? If I can get through this pregnancy with only like a month of nausea, I may just get pregnant again :) There goes the reason for willing twins into being! :)
ALSO, I was able to get a prescription for Zofran which is that kick butt anti-nausea pill that I couldn't get last time with Lyric because it was $500 for 15 pills without insurance. But now thanks to my lovely insurance, I paid $10 :) Unfortunately it make me SO constipated... ick.

I am still SO RIDICULOUSLY TIRED! I'm more tired this week than last week. I mean seriously, walking across the room, taking a shower, walking upstairs to the galley to get a diet coke... it WEARS ME OUT! Today I had a big lunch that I was in charge of for work, and just dealing with all of that and cleaning up KICKED MY BUTT. My back is hurting, my legs feel like stumps.... I'm just so tired. I can't wait for the 2nd trimester energy boost where I get spurts of nesting and love a clean house. Right now I'm doing good if I can just get my butt off the couch to start a load of laundry, let's not even talk about folding it.... I'm tired. Have I mentioned that yet?

Here is my 9 week Info:
Lots of things are going on now with your baby-to-be. A human being has many double body parts and organs that originate at the same time and develop into a right and left counterpart. A beautiful symmetry. Every cell knows exactly where it has to be and what it has to develop into, without anyone telling it what to do. A 'little person' is almost complete, measuring about an inch in length and weighing some 2 grams, happily splashing around in its membrane filled with fluids.

[WAIT-HERE IS MY FAVORITE PART:]

Did you know that at 9 weeks, your baby already has a tiny anus

[HAHA- OK, I'M IMATURE.]

and that little bones are beginning to be formed? From now on the baby will develop hips, shoulders, elbows, hands and fingers. The 'lower stumps' will get knees, ankles and feet and the fingers and toes will eventually lose their webbing. He can wiggle them, too! With small twitches, he squiggles with his little arms and legs. He can move his thumb to his mouth, which opens and has a tongue. Soon he will start sucking his thumb yet and develop a preference for his right or left hand which will last throughout his life. He even has a tiny little nose. In short, your baby is becoming a real minuscule human being with a face.

So here's to 9 weeks, my little one getting an anus and losing his/her tail! :)