7 Weeks Pregnant

  Well, I said I would try to write a post for each week I am pregnant. Today I am 7 weeks and I am so excited to see baby for the first time next week. We have our appointment on Tuesday morning; first they are going to do the ultrasound and then I'm meeting with the doctor right afterwards to discuss things. As most of you already know, I saw a midwife for my first pregnancy and I absolutely LOVED her...we had Noah at Montgomery Regional Birth Center and I couldn't have asked for a better group of people to bring Noah into this world. The one regret I did have was that I had to have a c-section...I'm really praying that won't be the case this time. Anyways, here are some facts about this week!

See 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.

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