14 weeks ❤

so last night as i was asleep, well half asleep i guess, and i had my hand on my stomach and felt a hard ball about the size of a grapefruit or bigger! it woke me up all the way right away, to make sure i wasnt dreaming. and sure enough, i can feel my uterus! better when i am laying down. i am really excited as small as it is now! but just knowing over the next month or 2 it will triple in size! it feels a little more real than just thinking there is a baby in there, i can kinda feel proof now! so thats fun and new for us! and i am still feeling pretty good. for the past few days my upper back was kinda hurting, and i looked it up. i thought back pain during pregnancy would only be lower back pain, but i guess its normal for upper back pain too. because all off the muscles and ligaments are weakening and lengthening, and can cause pain. but it only bothers me when i first wake up. and exercise helps. also this morning i got some serious pain under my sternum. i cant decide if it was heart burn or just pain from the uterus shoving all my organs out of the way. but other than those things, i have been feelin good! looking forward to the weekend!

How your baby's growing at 14 weeks:

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This week's big developments: Your baby 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. He can grasp, too, and if you're having an ultrasound now, you may even catch him sucking his thumb.

In other news: Your baby's 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. Your 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, your little pugilist's hands and feet (which now measure about 1/2 inch long) are more flexible and active.