14 weeks

I felt the baby move today for the first time. Such a wonderful and exciting feeling. It felt like a somersault type of move for sure. I'm looking forward to many more of these feelings. We will be finding out in a couple of weeks if we are having a boy or a girl. We cant wait to find out if Ryder will have a little brother or a little sister.


Here is a bit more about the developments this week.
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.