Baby update - The kids are excited
Post written by: beagooddad
The baby in the belly is 12 weeks along now. You can see the live baby cam over in the sidebar. Click on it a few times to see the various countdowns and countups. Almost second trimester and calmer belly for BeAGoodMom.
The baby officially became a fetus during week 11. Good job kid. The sex organs should be starting to develop. We didn’t see anything at the ultrasound earlier this week but hopefully will during the appointment next month.
For those interested, at 12 weeks in utero, the baby should be about3″ long. For those of you fortunate enough to have learned the metric system instead of the ridiculous inches and feet nonsense, that would make the baby about this big. Isn’t that just so adorable. Or creepy or something.
Those sharp little baby razor blade fingernails and toenails should start to develop any day now, too. Grow baby, grow.
The kids have taken quite a liking to talking about the baby. We have been working with them to explain where the baby is at and all the things they are going to help with once the baby is born. Pookie probably thinks we are a little crazy but plays along.
Geetle is all over the whole baby phenomenon. She’s committed to feeding the baby, bathing the baby, pushing the baby in the stroller, and playing with the baby. The only thing she refuses to do is change the diapers.
Today she asked us a pretty amazing question for a four year old. She asked BeAGoodMom with complete seriousness tonight, “Can the baby see your bones?” Where do they come up with this stuff?
April 6th, 2007 at 11:55 am
Wow, that is a good question from a 4 year old. I guess it makes sense. The baby is “inside mommy”, and “mommy’s bones are inside mommy”, so it only makes sense that the baby could see mommy’s bones.
April 6th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
We were pretty shocked. She learned that bones are inside your body at school a little while back and must have made the connection.
I told her that the baby was the size of the palm of my hand and she refused to believe me. When we first told the kids, the baby was smaller than a finger nail. Geetle still thanks the baby is that big.
April 9th, 2007 at 11:13 am
I think that it shows that your child is very interested in all things baby. Hopefully when baby comes she will still be so interested! lol
By the way love the site, lots of good reads and love the little sidebar baby! Awesome.
JennyB
April 9th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Thanks Jenny. Geetle would raise the new baby herself if we let her. I don’t know how she is going to last another 193 days.
They are building a new hospital near us. Everytime we drive by she wants to know if that is where the baby will be born.