Weekday-only readers of the Irish Trojan’s Blog should be sure to go back and read my Saturday post announcing Becky’s and my big news: We’re pregnant!
More specifically, Becky is officially 13 weeks pregnant, as of today. According to BabyCenter.com, our little guy (or girl) is currently about three inches tall — “roughly the size of a jumbo shrimp” — and weighs about an ounce. However:
Despite the small proportions, there’s a fully formed baby inside [Becky’s] womb now. Much more proportional than it was a few weeks ago, his head is now only about a third the size of his body. His tiny, unique fingerprints are already in place. His kidneys and urinary tract are functional, and he’s starting to urinate out the amniotic fluid he’s been swallowing.
Aww. The little tyke is learning how to pee! ;)
There’s more here, including: “Little hairs, known as lanugo, will start to cover their body this week, as their sense of taste and smell are further refined.” (The use of the pronoun “their” in this instance is just a grammatically improper substitute for “his/her,” not a reference to twins or triplets — he says, shuddering. Heh.)
Anyway, our baby has grown an awful lot in the last few weeks, and has started looking a lot less like an alien (or fish, or frog) and more like a human. :) Check out this comparison of fetal development at 5, 8 and 13 weeks:
For some ultrasound images, go here or here.
Oh, and hey, check this out:
Pretty cool. It updates automatically as the weeks go by. I might have to put one up on top of the homepage or something.
P.S. Incidentally, for those who aren’t familiar with the way these things work (I certainly wasn’t, until quite recently), the due date and the number of weeks aren’t specifically based on the, ahem, conception date — they’re based on the start date of the mother’s last menstrual cycle before pregnancy. This leads to the somewhat odd result that the baby hasn’t necessarily even been conceived yet during the first and second “weeks of pregnancy,” which doesn’t make much sense to me, but what do I know?
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Categories: Our baby
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June 25th, 2007 at 8:42:38 am
wow! Congrats… new job, new baby, you are going to be a busy man!
June 25th, 2007 at 9:36:22 am
What’s all this excitedment about? It’s just a blob of tissue until it is born.
June 25th, 2007 at 9:51:52 am
Leanna says:
The little tyke is cute already, heh.
We’re looking forward.
Love,
Mom
OXO XOX OXOXOX
June 25th, 2007 at 10:21:37 am
brendan,
CONGRATS! To you and you wife..
I have to tell you that I am currently in the middle of adjusting to a new job and my first child (born in March). I have one important piece of advice: AT SOME POINT, DONT LISTEN TO ADVICE! Soulds odd, but my wife and I have spent many hours being extremely frustrated b/c we were worried about deciding whether to not/follow advice. At the end of the day, the two of you are intelligent adults - with the instinctive ability to care for a child - and you have the child’s best interest in mind, and you will be JUST FINE in taking care of your baby.
Anyway, thats my two cents…
Congrats again!
June 25th, 2007 at 10:24:44 am
You guys are amazing. Congratulations! Thanks for making me an ‘aunt’, again!
June 25th, 2007 at 10:32:51 am
Congrats, but didn’t someone indirectly give out the news about a month ago in the comments section? I’m curious if anyone noticed this, but I’m too lazy to dig it up.
June 25th, 2007 at 11:33:58 am
I agree with alphadog.
When my son was born I was still in college and working 2 jobs. Just do what is in the best interest of your child and things will work out fine.
Congrats again!
June 25th, 2007 at 12:08:00 pm
didn’t someone indirectly give out the news about a month ago in the comments section?
I don’t believe so. Nadine made a comment on April 26 about Lamaze class, but she was just speculating that we would eventually have a baby — her comment was before we even knew that we were pregnant!
And on June 4, over on Becky’s blog, Wobbly H responded to a couple of posts about motherhood and parenting by saying, “I take it from your recent postings that you want a bun in the oven.” But that, too, was just speculation; Wobbly didn’t have any inside information.
Those are the only relevant comments that I’m aware of.
June 25th, 2007 at 12:25:59 pm
Got it. That Nadine comment was what I had in mind.
June 25th, 2007 at 1:43:04 pm
Congrats to you two!
June 25th, 2007 at 5:30:26 pm
“Inside information”
“Inside, in formation”
(grin)
Felicitations ! To all three of you !
Your respective parental units are already starting to savour the incipient revenge …
(bigger grin)
Be yourselves, and you’ll do just fine …
June 25th, 2007 at 6:47:21 pm
Congrats to you both its a beautiful thing, parenting is, I cant wait to read the blog where you describe how the little tike did not sleep from midnight to 4am because of an fever and you sat up with him/her the whole time.
Brendan, this is your job also as it was mine last night!
June 25th, 2007 at 7:08:04 pm
Condor—I posted this in early June:
“Making an assumption here, but from the pictures of all the darling little ones you’ve posted just in the past month…
I side with overseas crowd—Japan, China, Nepal, Thailand, India.
You can and will do the US stuff (and do see EVERY National park!) with the kids, and you can much more easily do the European stuff with kids too, but the long, long plane trip to a country where you don’t have a clue as to the language—not something too many parents do with kids, even IF you have the $ and time, both of which will be harder to find.”
I knew, but hadn’t been told…
lam
June 25th, 2007 at 11:28:53 pm
There was that one comment about Becky holding a beer…
June 25th, 2007 at 11:41:42 pm
Hmm. Well, yes, but I don’t think that comment was by anyone who knew anything… I assume it was just a reference to the crappy beer they thought Becky was drinking rather than a pregnancy reference. (It was, of course, not a beer. It was a can of soda or something, I forget exactly, but Becky has had not a sip of alcohol since we found out she’s with child.)
June 26th, 2007 at 3:33:01 am
Justice Kennedy, you stole my thunder.
Funny thing, Randy’s wife: That’s how I found out Becky was pregnant, when I offered her a beer upon B&B’s arrival at the A&B homestead.
June 27th, 2007 at 10:46:06 pm
Brendan, you assumed it was speculation, but I was using the beta version of “Google Futurish” which allows a user to look up blog entries for any given date in the future. Google decided early in 2004 that your blog was the perfect test blog given how MUCH you blog! I’m happy to report that this is the first online reference to Google Futurish! And by the way, Baby Loy arrives eleven days early but everything is fine.
June 27th, 2007 at 10:49:50 pm
Heh.
If Baby Loy actually is born on December 20, I’m going to hire you as my stock broker…
June 27th, 2007 at 10:54:55 pm
I meant it to be:
December 19 at 2:32 AM
And the room has a GREAT view.
Becky’s roommate is Katherine and she just had a daughter Suzanne.
June 27th, 2007 at 10:59:30 pm
Oh, and Baby Loy’s favorite book is about a geeky boy who has a computer company and has a brother named Brendan who’s best friend makes clouds.