9 Weeks

Your pregnancy: 9 weeks

How your baby's growing:Your new resident is nearly an inch long — about the size of a grape — and weighs just a fraction of an ounce. She's starting to look more and more human. Her essential body parts are accounted for, though they'll go through plenty of fine-tuning in the coming months. Other changes abound: Your baby's heart finishes dividing into four chambers, and the valves start to form — as do her tiny teeth. The embryonic "tail" is completely gone. Your baby's organs, muscles, and nerves are kicking into gear. The external sex organs are there but won't be distinguishable as male or female for another few weeks. Her eyes are fully formed, but her eyelids are fused shut and won't open until 27 weeks. She has tiny earlobes, and her mouth, nose, and nostrils are more distinct. The placenta is developed enough now to take over most of the critical job of producing hormones. Now that your baby's basic physiology is in place, she's poised for rapid weight gain.

Moving right along . . .

We had another doctors appt yesterday, well actually two of them. The first one was with Dr. M who is my perinatologist (aka hi risk dr) and the second was with Dr. E. Both of them were fairly uneventful. We got to see baby blob, which is pretty much what he/she looks like at this point, and confirmed that there is indeed only one in there. Heartbeat is strong, baby looks good. I was 8weeks 5days yesterday and baby is measuring 9weeks 1day so everything is perfect so far!

Starting to feel really yucky pretty much daily until I eat something and then it seems to subside. Still getting heartburn which thankfully Pepcid AC is helping with.

Next appt is on March 30th with my reg. ob Dr. G. I see Dr. E again on the 31st which will be my last appt with her. Scary how quickly things are moving along . . .

Here is a pic baby blob from yesterday: