We have 1 more week of hols from work. This week we didn't really do very much aside from going out for our anniversary lunch on Tuesday and we went to see Hancock @ the cinema on Thursday.We have our first hospital appointment on Wednesday (9th)!!
How about little Jellybean?
Your astonishingly tiny baby has been hard at work growing as fast as possible?almost doubling in size in the past three weeks! Amazingly, you?re in for a repeat size doubling performance within the next three weeks! Your tiny champion still weighs less than a quarter of an ounce but has already completed the most critical stage of their development. Using Doppler technology, your doctor or gynecologist can let you hear their tiny rapid fetal heartbeats this week (145-165 beats per minute!). Chances for miscarriage are greatly reduced when the heartbeat can be detected, so take a sigh of relief if you?ve been needing one?it hasn?t been an easy ten weeks! What?s more, they?re getting ready to make their first baby poop! Your little one?s major organ systems are developing, including a functioning digestive tract capable of moving food all the way through their bowels. The final shiny gold star on their fetal behavior chart for the week: your little scrapper has already developed defense mechanisms to protect them on reflex!
Poop??
You mean... Jellybean is gonna poop inside me?? In the amniotic fluid he/she swims in? NICE!! 
What a clever little Jellybean!!
How was Hancock? I think your little bean is getting ready to poo...he/she shouldn't actually have their first bowel movement until after birth. Little bean shouldn't poop...it could choke him/her if they "inhale" it. No worries. This is very rare and really the only threat is when they are over the due date.
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