Whats going on with Baby Svoboda?!

Well we are in week 14, which means I just began my 2nd trimester! yay! Baby Swobes can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his thumb! Thanks to brain impulses, his facial muscles are getting a workout as his tiny features form one expression after another. His kidneys are producing urine, which he releases into the amniotic fluid around him — a process he'll keep up until birth. They say that when we have our next ultrasound, we may be able to catch the baby sucking its thumb:)

Baby Swobes is stretching out. From head to bottom, he measures 3 1/2 inches — about the size of a lemon — and he weighs 1 1/2 ounces. His body's growing faster than his head, which now sits upon a more distinct neck. By the end of this week, his arms will have grown to a length that's in proportion to the rest of his body. (His legs still have some lengthening to do.) He's starting to develop an ultra-fine, downy covering of hair, called lanugo, all over his body. The baby's liver starts making bile this week — a sign that it's doing its job right — and his spleen starts helping in the production of red blood cells. Though you can't feel his tiny punches and kicks yet, Baby Svoboda's hands and feet (which now measure about 1/2 inch long) are more flexible and active.

We should be able to feel the baby kick at the end of this month!! And on Aug. 18th we discover if baby Svoboda is a boy...or girl!!!

Lots of my info came from babycenter.com...which is one of my favorite websites to look at! In case you're interested--this is what the Baby looks like this week :)