You've got a heavyweight in your belly now (well, in baby terms, anyway). Your little champ weighs about ten ounces and has a height, crown to rump, of about six and a half inches. Think small cantaloupe (and probably as sweet too).Is it a boy cantaloupe or a girl cantaloupe? You'll be able to find out your baby's gender via the ultrasound by this point. If you're carrying a girl fetus, her uterus is fully formed this week and her vaginal canal is starting its development (which means that in about twenty-five or thirty-some-odd years, she could be just where you're at, Grandma!). She also has primitive eggs in her tiny little ovaries now, seven million of them — though by the time she's born, that number will be down to two million (still more than she could ever hope to use). And interestingly, your baby girl will be born with all the eggs she'll ever have.
Have you got male? If your fetus is a boy, his testicles have begun their descent this week, though they're still located in the abdomen, waiting for the scrotum to finish growing so they'll have a place to drop into in a few weeks.
Though the external genitals in both male and female fetuses still have a way to grow, you should be able to find out the sex of your baby (if you want to) during an ultrasound exam. ~Information from whattoexpect.com
My Symptoms (Side Effects?)
- The pain that was only on my right side is now on both sides right under my ribs. Laying on my stomach doesn't help so much anymore as it only causes pressure on the belly which is growing. My midwife doesn't seem to concerned about this, but I need to keep her informed if it gets worse. If it is something else, and it keeps occurring after birth, I will have to get more tests.
- Pregnancy brain. What was that again? I keep forgetting stuff easily. It's not as bad as I thought it would be, but every once in awhile I just feel lost trying to remember something I know I should be remembering. What were we talking about again?
- Still vomiting. Indigestion induced perhaps? I'm not sure. The acid reducer pills don't help, so I'm just dealing with it.
