Baby's Reproductive Organs
This week, your baby gets the goods she'll need to, well, make her own baby one day. That's right, reproductive organs begin to form now, as well as some other key organs, like the pancreas and gallbladder. Your baby's head, which is about half the length of her entire body, is tucked down toward her chest. Her tiny fingers are growing longer, and the ends are slightly enlarged right now -- this is where those unique fingerprints will ultimately form. Plus, she's doubled in size again. She's about an inch long now!
By now your baby's getting all her nourishment through the placenta, a flat, spongy organ attached to the uterine wall that is covered with wavy masses of capillary-filled tissue called chorionic villi. Oxygen and valuable nutrients from that soup and salad you ate for lunch ultimately pass through these blood vessels and into the umbilical cord. And the same system carries wastes away from her body. Also, since the placenta and chorionic villi are made up of the same genetic material as the baby, they can help identify chromosomal abnormalities like Down syndrome, or genetic diseases like Tay-Sachs disease, and cystic fibrosis (which is why tests to detect these things start up soon).
Shew...week nine is here already!! I hope this time keeps going by quickly. I am so ready for summer to be here. I have decided to make this the best summer ever. I'm planning on enjoying this pregnancy to the fullest. I want to take the girls to the park and swimming. Can't wait for sunny days kicked back eating lots of ice cream. I have decided to quit dwelling on everything that is going wrong and start focusing on being truly happy with what I have. Life deals us all a different hand and what we do about it is our decision. Well the kids are at home from school today due to snow so I need to go be a mommy
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