I am in my ninth week, which also means I am starting my last month of my first trimester. It's kind of bittersweet. While I will be ecstatic that the nausea will be subsiding, this is the trimester that I found out about the baby, saw the baby for the first time, and will hopefully get to hear it. Our next appointment is June 22. That will be my tenth week. It may or may not be too early to hear. Seeing the baby made it feel more concrete, I can only imagine what hearing its little heartbeat will do!! :)
This week, apparently Baby Mason is nearly an inch long and is about the size of a grape or medium olive and weighs just a fraction of an ounce, starting to look more and more human, essential body parts are accounted for, though they'll go through plenty of fine-tuning in the coming months. Other changes abound: the baby's heart finishes dividing into four chambers, and the valves start to form — as do baby's tiny teeth. The embryonic "tail" is completely gone. The baby's organs, muscles, and nerves are kicking into gear. The external sex organs are there but won't be distinguishable as male or female for another few weeks. Baby's eyes are fully formed, but eyelids are fused shut and won't open until 27 weeks. He has tiny earlobes, and his mouth, nose, and nostrils are more distinct. The placenta is developed enough now to take over most of the critical job of producing hormones.
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