I'm 5 weeks and 3 days pregnant today!

Published by Kerry | Filed under Pregnancy Milestones

Another day, another update.  =)

I got an email from babycenter.com that is telling me that now that I’m (over) 5 weeks, our baby is the size of a apple seed, and he/she looks more like a little tadpole than a human.  The exciting news this week is that our little apple seed’s brain is beginning to grow!  A biology refresher for everyone – the brain develops from the neural tube, the structure that will soon sprout our baby’s spinal cord, nerves, and backbone.  The baby is now made up into three layers:  the ectoderm (that houses the skin, hair, nails, sweat glands, and tooth enamel), the mesoderm (where the heart and circulatory system lay, as well as the baby’s muscles, cartilage, bone, and tissue), and the endoderm (where the lungs, intestines, thyroid, liver, and pancreas are). 

This week, our baby’s heart will begin to divide into chambers and beat and pump blood – we cannot wait to see that (T minus 13 days)!!!!  The placenta and umbilical cord are already working, delivering food and oxygen to our little one – I hope he/she enjoyed that Baconator!  Eeesh.  I need to start eating a little more healthy, don’t I?

I’ve been told that I should eat what sounds good when I feel like it, at least for the first trimester, since I don’t feel like eating most of the time – fine by me!  Milkshakes and burgers it is!  I’m only kidding, I actually managed some fruits and veggies today, which is a miracle, considering that neither one of those things sounded good to me before today.

I’ll write more later, I’m certain I need to get some work done today…

…but before I forget – a BIG CONGRATS to my friends, Molly and Catherine (both formerly infertile), who just found out this week that they are both having little GIRLS!!!!!

Kerry