| YOHAN STEFAN BERG |
Approximate timeline (the baby's age in weeks is given as the age since conception, for an approximate gestational age add two):
August 24th, 2001: Katy's last period.
August 25th: This is a picture of mom on vacation in Taiwan:
September 9th: Katy and Stefan make love.
September 10th (week 0): One of my sperm finds Katy's egg in one of her fallopian tubes.
September 12th: Our baby looks like this (enlarged):
September 13th: Our baby consists of about twenty cells, called a morula. The baby enters Katy's uterus.
September 17th (week 1): Our baby consists of several hundred cells and looks like this (enlarged):
September 24th (week 2): Our baby consists of three layers that look like this (enlarged):
October 1st (week 3): Katy feels nausea. She does a
pregnancy tests and finds that it is positive. Baby's heart starts beating,
blood begins to circulate. Our baby looks about like this right now: 
(1/17 inch tall). Here is an enlargement.
October 2nd: Katy visits a nurse who takes her blood and confirms the pregnancy. Katy weighs 114.5lbs and has a resting pulse of 67 beats per minute. We tell close family members that Katy is pregnant.
October 4th: Katy and Stefan visit a pregnancy counselor at University of Washington Hall Health center.
October 8th (week 4): Our
baby looks about like this: 
(one
quarter inch tall). Here is an enlargement:
October 9th: Katy and I have a meet-and-greet appointment with Dr. Katherine VanKessel, the obstetrician at University of Washington's Hall Health.
October 11th: Katy and I have a meet-and-greet appointment with Cindy Rogers, one of the four midwifes at University of Washington's Hall Health.
October 12th: Our baby donates one dollar to the America's Fund for Afghan Children.
October 15th (week 5): The baby now looks like this: 
(one
third of an inch tall). Here is an enlarged view:
October 22nd (week 6): The baby's eyes look open,
because the eyelids have not yet formed fully. The baby now looks like this: 
(one
half inch tall). Here is another enlarged view:
:
October 25th: Katy and I have our first official pregnancy checkup with one of our midwifes, Cindy Rogers. We spend 80 minutes talking with Cindy. Today, Cindy was not able, yet, to hear the baby's heart beat. She tells us that we should be able to hear the heart beat during the next meeting.
October 29th (week 7): The baby now looks like this:
(one
inch tall). The tail has begun to disappear and gender difference begin to form.
Here is an enlarged view:
November 3rd: Katy's weight is113.5 lbs and she has a resting pulse of 76 beats per minute.
November 5th (week 8): The baby now looks like this:
(one
and a quarter inch tall). All major organs have formed and the skeleton is
beginning to form. It is the baby's second month-birthday. It is the last week
the baby is called an embryo. Next week the baby will be called a fetus. Here is
an enlarged view:
November 12th (week 9): Our baby now looks like this: 
(one
and three-quarter inch tall). The baby begins to flex muscles, but Katy will not
yet be able to feel it.
November 15th: We have our second meeting with Cindy, our midwife. Since Katy is having a stomach flu today, we did not do the physical as originally planned. However, today we can hear the baby's heartbeat using a listening device. For a brief 47 second, medium-quality recording of the heartbeat click here. For the high-quality recording of the full session (189 seconds) click here. In the recordings, two heartbeats are audible. The faster heartbeat is that of the baby (about two beats per second) and the slower heartbeat is Katy's (about once per second).
November 19th (week 10): The baby now looks like this: 
(two
inches tall).
November 20th: Katy gets the flu shot today.
November 26th (week 11): The baby now looks like this: 
(two
and a half inch tall).
November 29th: Katy has a physical exam at Hall Health. (Katy) Midwife Cindy Rogers listened to my heart, lung, and did a pep smear exam. She also measured the size of my uterus. She said looks like things are going just the way they should be. We also listened to baby's heart beat, it's again so fast and strong. When she is doing the pep smear, she said I should have plenty of room for the baby to pass through on delivery, which is really nice to know!
November 30th: Katy does an ultrasound exam at her work at Siemens. (Katy) This time they have 3 different machines all lined up to compare the images (Acuson, Antarius, Elegra). Kim (the technician) also made a short video tape for me recording baby's movement. I watch it again and again, can't get my eyes off it... It's amazing how much you can see using ultrasound. When the baby gets bigger, the image can only capture parts of the baby's body, but we will be able to see organs in much more detail. A portion of the video can be seen by clicking here. Below are a few images of the baby (click on them for a larger image).
December 3rd (week 12): Our baby now looks like this: 
(three
inches tall).
December 10th (week 13): Our baby now looks like this:
(three and a half inches tall).
December 13th: Katy does another ultrasound at Siemens.
December 15th: Visit with Cindy Rogers, one of our midwifes. Katy also has blood drawn afterwards for various tests.
December 17th (week 14): Our baby now looks like this:
(four and a quarter
inches tall).
December 24th (week 15): Our baby now looks like this:
(five
inches tall).
December 31st (week 16): Our baby now looks like this:
(five and a half inches tall).
January 7th (week 17): Our baby now looks like this:
(six
inches tall). We also had a routine visit with Kathy, our midwife.
January 9th: We went to Prepared Childbirth Series class from 7-9pm. We practiced some breathing and learned about the three stages of giving birth.
January 14th (week 18):
January 15th: We received the chromosome pictures for the baby.
January 16th: We went to Prepared Childbirth Series class. We practiced breathing.
January 21st (week 19):
January 23rd: We went to Prepared Childbirth Series class. Today we looked at the birthing and recovery rooms of the UW Hospital. We also continued some more breathing exercises.
January 28th (week 20):
February 4th (week 21):Our baby now looks
like this:
.
February 11th (week 22):
February 14th: One day after Katy's 30th birthday.
February 18th (week 23):
February 25th (week 24):
March 4th (week 25):
March 11th (week 26):
March 18th (week 27):
March 21st: We saw Cindy Roger, our midwife, for a routine visit. Everything checks out normal.
March 25th (week 28):
May 20th (week 38): Yohan Stefan Berg was born today at 7:42 p.m. He weighed 7 lbs and 14.5 ounces.
May 21st: All three of us spend time in the hospital recovery room. Here are some pictures of mom and son.
Notes: Drawings of embryos and fetus were reproduced without permission from Mayo Clinic Complete Book of Pregnancy & Baby's First Year book. Some other images were taken from www.paternityangel.com web site. The images of the baby may not be the right size as this depends on your monitor resolution and size (they should be roughly right for a 1024x768 resolution on a visible area with 16" diagonal size).
Last Updated: June 11, 2002