So I'm a little late in posting this. I'm at the end of the 8 weeks. I just didn't know what to write about again. It's pretty much the same old thing...heartburn, queasy (but nothing happening), thinking I'm constipated because I haven't gone in 2-3 days, so I overdose on fiber and end up with diarrhea (ya I know-TMI). I'm looking forward to my first prenatal appointment on the 25th because Jon is coming with and we may get our first glimpse of chishi and hopefully get to hear the heartbeat. All the books keep saying we should get to do this at the 11-12 wk check up. So far I have been reading my Babycenter week by week book and the huge spiral book the clinic gave me. Jon has been reading The Expectant Father. Pretty good read, I have learned a bit reading both my version and his.
Jon has been fantastic since finding out about the pregnancy. I couldn't ask for better. He helps out around the house, carries things up and down the stairs for me, has shoveled the driveway numerous times, and has put up with my moodiness (which I know I have been).
Many of my friends when pregnant have called their baby something - bug, peanut, bittywee, squishy. Jon and I have decided on chishi. It means baby in Japanese.
This is what Babycenter has to say about chishi:
Webbed fingers and toes are poking out from your baby's hands and feet, his eyelids practically cover his eyes, breathing tubes extend from his throat to the branches of his developing lungs, and his "tail" is just about gone. In his brain, nerve cells are branching out to connect with one another, forming primitive neural pathways. You may be daydreaming about your baby as one sex or the other, but the external genitals still haven't developed enough to reveal whether you're having a boy or a girl. Either way, your baby — about the size of a kidney bean — is constantly moving and shifting, though you still can't feel it.
Cravings: still steak, and any other food that comes to mind.
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are things ok? I don't see a recent update.
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