Playing Catchup 9, 10 and 11 week updates

How Big Is (and was) Baby?

9 weeks -


Your little embryo has now officially graduated to fetus-hood. Adding to the excitement, a Doppler ultrasound device might be able to pick up the beating heart. With basic physical structures in place and increasingly distinct facial features, baby is kind of starting to look like... well... a baby!

10 weeks...


With bones and cartilage starting to form and vital organs beginning to function, baby is making major progress. Body length will almost double in the next three weeks, and arm joints are now working. (Soon, legs will too.)

Now... 11 weeks....


Your fetus currently enjoys a 1:1 ratio between body and head, and has skin so transparent that blood vessels show right through. But, fingers and toes are no longer webbed, and hair follicles, tooth buds and nail beds are forming -- setting up a significantly more attractive future.

How Big Am I?



Everything is going pretty great pregnancy-wise. Only new symptom I have is... TMI coming up... constipation. Not fun at all. I have a dr's appt next Tuesday and I'll be 12.5 weeks. Hopefully, Jimmy will be able to make it and we'll be able to hear the heartbeat for the first time. Next post coming soon... vacation update... we're back!