Inside for a few days...

We are staying inside this last two days because the news about the president and all that are happening here. Politically is not a good time for this part of Africa, specially for the refugees on the west that are seeing their most needed help from the NGOs leaving forcedly by the Government. This NGOs mostly provide clean water, medical care, food and all that the people need to survive as a refugee. We are deeply sad!

Jess is about 7 weeks now and she is not feeling so hot lately. Look at my wife just shows me that how amazing are the woman body and how amazing is the process of making a new person inside. It is hard though to see her throws up, don't eat much, sleeps more and pees more. What an amazing woman, what a change!! I'm so proud of her to just keep going and still smiling (most of the time).
We just found out that we have to go home a little early that we were planning too. Our tickets are good only for one year, with that said, because we came on May last year, we have to leave on May 14th. If we don't leave, we will loose the tickets (around 2000 bucks). So we will be going to MN on May 14th and we will decide from there where we suppose to be for the birth... (Brazil? Hawaii? Oregon? Minneapolis? Florida?Colorado Springs?) few things are in place, My parents are planning on coming for the birth, weather wise, green card applications and location location location...
Our plans are to come back in the beginning of next year, probably mids of January. All depends on green card, new passport for the baby, visas to comeback, tickets... just s few things.

Your pregnancy: 7 weeks

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How your baby's growing:

The big news this week: Hands and feet are emerging from developing arms and legs — although they look more like paddles at this point than the tiny, pudgy extremities you're daydreaming about holding and tickling. Technically, your baby is still considered an embryo and has something of a small tail, which is an extension of her tailbone. The tail will disappear within a few weeks, but that's the only thing getting smaller. Your baby has doubled in size since last week and now measures half an inch long, about the size of a blueberry.

If you could see inside your womb, you'd spot eyelid folds partially covering her peepers, which already have some color, as well as the tip of her nose and tiny veins beneath parchment-thin skin. Both hemispheres of your baby's brain are growing, and her liver is churning out red blood cells until her bone marrow forms and takes over this role. She also has an appendix and a pancreas, which will eventually produce the hormone insulin to aid in digestion. A loop in your baby's growing intestines is bulging into her umbilical cord, which now has distinct blood vessels to carry oxygen and nutrients to and from her tiny body.


Blessing to you all!!