Overwhelmed and My Babies

Its been awhile I know. I have been going through alot. I was once again hospitalized over the weekend, released then back in by Monday. I feel like a bad mother. I cannot control any aspect of my life. I cant control when I eat or anything. I cant even work. I know Randy understands, but I am a very independent women. I dont like depending on people to do things for me. I remember before I had my liences I would rather walk in the freezing weather than to ask for a ride from my family members. I never would put Christina in that situation but you know what I mean. I am going to have to be on iv therapy at home. So if I dont write on here for awhile you can assume I am laying on the couch with an iv in my arm. I feel so guily its like I am saying to my daughter that this baby is more inportant, I know thats not true but it feel like it. I love both of my children the same. I just have to take care of the one inside of me a little more than Tina. I have been told that she is smart and she understands. I hope that is true even if its not someday I will help her understand. Well I am 9 weeks my baby is an embryo about the size of a rasberry.

Your Baby:

This week marks the end of the embryonic period and the placenta is developing as well. Your baby looks like a tiny human now and is approximately 13 - 17 mm or about 0.51 - 0.66 inches in length (about the size of a raspberry). At this point, he weighs approximately 1 - 1.5 grams (the weight of a paperclip).

While the internal reproductive organs have now become either testes for boys or ovaries for girls, there's nothing yet to tell you whether it's a boy or girl even if you look closely. The skeleton has begun to form as cartilage and bones take shape. The baby's intestine has begun to move out of the umbilical cord into the baby's abdomen and your baby is now taking his first few drinks – he's drinking amniotic fluid. Remember, a little of what you eat and drink ends up in the amniotic fluid so, it can end up in him. Reflex muscle movements continue and now your baby will move away if touched through the uterine wall. Other changes in your baby are the heart valve formation, the retina formation, and the tip of the nose becoming visible. http://www.babiesonline.com/pregnancy/week-by-week/week9.asp