Friday, August 18, 2006

15 weeks as of Aug 17th


Week Fifteen
You may begin to feel some fluttering movements as baby kicks, flails, twists and turns (but don't panic if you don't yet). She can also grasp, squint, frown, grimace and maybe suck her thumb!
Your baby's legs have grown longer than the arms and the body is now longer than the head.
And you'll be happy to note that he is moving those arms and legs often!
His skin is very thin -- so thin blood vessel are visible. It's covered by a fine, soft layer of hair called lanugo. Lanugo comes from a Latin word meaning "down." This hair is thought to help insulate your little boy.
The three tiny bones in his middle ear have begun to harden. The auditory centers in your baby's brain haven't developed yet, so she might not really understand what you say but her hearing capacity is in the process of developing.
Fingernails and toenails are growing.
Eyebrows are beginning to grow and even the hair his head is sprouting. It will probably change color and texture after birth.
All this and your little one is an amazing 3.98 inches (10.1cm) long and may weigh 2.47 ounces (70gm).


I'm feeling good. I've only had morning sickness the one time still (knock on wood). I could swear I've felt the baby 3 different times now, but I'm not 100% sure that's what it was. Lola is doing better. She is sleeping on my lap right now as I type. This is her usual spot whenever I'm at the computer. We have a few home improvement projects going on right now. We just had the pool replastered, got a new garage door and had all the shrubs in the front pulled out so I can relandscape. And we are getting a new front door in early Sept. All of this is in prep to sell our home sometime in the next 1-2 yrs. I'm not crazy about the school district we are in and Ray works in south Austin and my brokers office is south too, so we want to move south and get a larger home since with the addition of our baby we will no longer have a guest room.

Less than 2 wks now and we'll know our baby's gender! I just hope the baby cooperates for the ultrasound that day so we can see what we need to see, ;) !

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