Lil Mac:8 Weeks

Momma is still feeling really good. Have had a few moments of nausea when I've stayed up past my bed time but other than that I'm feeling great. We go to our first doctors appointment next Tuesday so I'm anxious for that and to see our little bean. I think once I see the heartbeat I will feel a lot better about everything.

The shots are going well this time as well. I'm bruising a lot more than last time so my stomach is full of black, blue and yellow circles about the size of a dime - quarter.

New this week: 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.