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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

14 weeks pregnant!!

We’re 14 weeks pregnant! In exactly one week we’ll have our next ultrasound! We’re really hoping Dr. Wayman will be able to tell us Coopela’s gender so we can come up with a real name!
Fetal development in pregnancy week 14: Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his thumb! Thanks to brain impulses, his facial muscles are getting a workout as his tiny features form one expression after another. His kidneys are producing urine, which he releases into the amniotic fluid around him — a process he'll keep up until birth. He can grasp, too, and if you're having an ultrasound now, you may even catch him sucking his thumb.
He's starting to develop an ultra-fine, downy covering of hair, called lanugo, all over his body. Your baby's liver starts making bile this week — a sign that it's doing its job right — and his spleen starts helping in the production of red blood cells. Though you can't feel his tiny punches and kicks yet, your little Coopela's hands and feet (which now measure about 1/2 inch long) are more flexible and active.

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