12 weeks

Your pregnancy: 12 weeks

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How your baby's growing:

The most dramatic development this week: reflexes. Your baby's fingers will soon begin to open and close, his toes will curl, his eye muscles will clench, and his mouth will make sucking movements. In fact, if you prod your abdomen, your baby will squirm in response, although you won't be able to feel it. His intestines, which have grown so fast that they protrude into the umbilical cord, will start to move into his abdominal cavity about now, and his kidneys will begin excreting urine into his bladder.

Meanwhile, nerve cells are multiplying rapidly, and in your baby's brain, synapses are forming furiously. His face looks unquestionably human: His eyes have moved from the sides to the front of his head, and his ears are right where they should be. From crown to rump, your baby-to-be is just over 2 inches long (about the size of a lime) and weighs half an ounce.

Has anyone seen my energy, I seem to have lost it about 12 weeks ago!! Very unmotivated, and tired, and yet on any given potty break overnight, I am up a MINIMUM of a half hour to as long as almost an hour and a half! So as much as it kills me to cut off my drinking at night/overnight, I have. Heck if I get up 2-3 times like I had been, I might as well not go to bed!

I still can't get the flipping baby out of my head. Could this be my wild child?? How about an Olympic gymnast?! Sometimes I swear I feel hiccups. But most items I have read make it seem like I wouldn't be feeling anything yet. Perhaps I am having inner muscle spasms?

I am hoping my skin will get better once the hot comes to an end. Though the nausea is generally better, I still have a general disinterest in most foods. However, I seem to choke down chips, pretzels and dip or salsa pretty well.
And confession time. No I did not go back to working out. and yes, this week I will be more diligent about the crap I am feeding to this poor baby. I guess since I am close to the end of the first trimester, I should really post 1 prego photo, so maybe by next week :)