Week 8!

Ah, 2 months already!

What’s new with the baby:
*Webbed fingers and toes
*Eyelids practically cover eyes
*“Tail” is just about gone (let’s hope so)
*Primitive neural pathways forming in the brain
*0.04 ounces
*5/8 inch long = the size of a kidney bean!
*All major organs have formed, but not yet fully developed
*Joints (elbows, wrists, ankles) are visible
*This week gonads begin to differentiate to male or female!
*Teeth, palate and ears are forming
*Ossification of bones begins
*And the thing that gets me the most: the baby is constantly moving and shifting (I just can’t feel it yet!)

My changes:
*Fatigue is getting better, I think. I haven’t taken a nap in awhile – maybe because of the new job.
*Nausea, no sickness.
*Preparing for lactation… yep, you know what that means.
In other news…

The Baby Dickey blog is listed in the WordPress “Growing Blogs” list at number 18 (out of 100)!! Right in between “All about knowledge and Sharia” and “Sam Crawley’s Tech Blog.”

So the people at work don’t know yet that I’m preggers, but all they’d have to do is google my name and they’d find all sorts of websites – one being Twitter, which would then lead them here. My bosses are not the googling type, but the previous manager who was training me might be. Yesterday she was talking about the future.. asking what I’d be doing a year from now (I don’t know)… and she said, well when are you and your hubby planning on having a baby? I was like, uhhhhmmmmmm I don’t know? — and I was thinking, she knows, she knows! But I think I’m in the clear… I think she was just being curious.….. and at some point, I’ll tell them.

Andddd one more gift that arrived yesterday! A t-shirt from my mom that says “Mom 09 December baby”