2nd Trimester, Here We Are!

''Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his tumb! Thanks to brain impulses, his facial muscles are getting a workout as his tiny features from 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 gasp, too, and if you're having an ultrasound now, you ma even catch him sucking his tumb.

In other news: Your baby's stretching out. From head to bottom, he measures 3 1/2 inches -- about the size of a lemon -- and he weighs 1 1/2 ounces. His body's growing faster than his head, which now sits upon a more distinct neck. By the end of this week, his arms will have grown to a length that's in proportion to the rest of his body. (His legs still have some lengthening to do.) 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 pugilist's hand and feet (which now measure about 1/2 inch long) are more flexible and active.''

Our baby is the size of a LEMON! When I read that this morning, I pulled out a lemon and put it up to my tummy....I can't believe our baby has grown so much. Time is going by so quickly, I can't believe our baby is going to be here in less than 6 months!!