11 weeks

Peanut is 11 weeks today! It's getting bigger. According to the Web, it is no longer an embryo anymore and is now a fetus. It is almost fully functioning.

Here is what one site had to say:
All of your baby's vital organs are now formed and functioning, so the risk of defects decreases this week as your baby becomes less susceptible to outside influences. Phew! Other exciting developments include:

Baby's ears are assuming their proper place this week and the fingernail and toenail beds are beginning to form. Your little "pumpkin head" really lives up to his nickname as his head is nearly as big as the rest of his body.

While testes or ovaries are completely formed now, don't start decorating the nursery. You won't be able to see your baby's gender for a few more weeks yet.

Your baby is really on the move now. In an ultrasound you might be able to see your little acrobat flailing his or her arms and legs and doing somersaults worthy of Cirque du Soleil. You still won't be able to feel any movement, so if you feel something "kick" in there, it's probably gas.

In the next nine weeks, your baby will increase 30 times in weight and almost triple in length. You might feel like you're increasing 30 times in weight at this point, too, but we can assure you're not—because, honey, you ain't seen nothin' yet!

Your baby now weighs a third of an ounce, about the same as two small, Starbucks-sized packets of sugar, is about 2 inches long, the length of one of those sugar packets. Isn't that sweet?

And it looks so much bigger!

So hopefully everything is okay in there.

On the Lexapro front, I talked to my psychiatrist today who was excited that I am pregnant and we talked over the phone about going down to 20mg for a while. He said that the mouth forms in the second trimester or that's when the defects would happen so he said that he def. wanted me on a lower dose through the second trimester. And that he wants to see me the second and third trimesters. I'm just glad he calls me back and doesn't make me drive the 30 minutes to go see him in Carmel!

One last thing, I don't want to get into it that much because it's not my place, but a friend of mine lost her babies today at 15 weeks. They were identical twins. It's really sad. Please just keep her and her family in your thoughts and prayers.