14 weeks- The end of the first trimester, the beginning of the second!!

Your pregnancy: 14 weeks
How your baby's growing:This week's big developments: 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.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 hands and feet (which now measure about 1/2 inch long) are more flexible and active.


When i read this and saw that our baby can now suck his/her thumb it brought tears to my eyes... i remember my little brothers sucking their thumbs when they were little and it was such a sweet thing... to think that this little one will be my baby... our baby... is a crazy thing to me and makes me tear up just thinking about it. i am so excited and although i am not technically a mom yet i feel like one, my greatest concern is to take care of this baby and i think about this baby all day long. if i dont think about the baby for a minute i feel bad and wonder how i could forget!!!
my sister let me borrow some maternity clothes and there was one pair of brown cargo pants... they are so cute and so comfy and very thin so they arent too hot... and i love them!!! i will be wearing these all the time! i am not showing that much yet... in fact some clothes i look normal but my waist is completely gone. it's so weird... it just amazes me how long a woman can go before she starts showing... i am a third of the way thru and anyone passing me on the street would never guess i am pregnant... i want the world to know!!! but then again i can wait... LOL
i appreciate all the prayers this far and keep on praying!!!! oh and i am hoping that in at least five weeks we find out what our little one is... i cant wait!!!!