Week 12
Thursday February 17th 2005, 9:22 pm
Filed under: Family

Mother:

You may
actually start feeling better from your extreme tiredness and nausea
this week. Others will hang on to it for awhile longer. Your abdomen
may start expanding, especially if this is not your first pregnancy.
Your placenta
will take over the production of hormones around this time. If you have
suffered from corpus luteum cysts they may begin to dissolve now. Your
risk of miscarriage is reduced even further.

Baby:

While
your baby's brain is not the same size it will be at birth, it does
have the same structure. Bile is being secreted by this time. S/he
weighs about 14 grams and is approximately 3.54 inches in total length.
Your
baby has its reflexes and also practice movements in the digestive
tract. All of this in preparation for extrauterine life.
If
your practitioner uses a doppler, you may be able to hear your baby's
heart beat at this office visit. It will sound very fast. Some say that
they hear clicking or the sounds of horse hooves. Either way it is a
joyous sound to hear! Your risk of miscarriage is greatly reduced once
you hear this sound.

Click the audio file to hear a baby's heart beat. It's beating at about 160 beats per minute (BPM).

Dad:

Consider joining a
support group for dads! There are plenty of online groups dedicated to
the art of fathering. These groups can be havens for you to discuss all
of your feelings from the good to the bad and every joy and frustration
in between.

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