7 weeks update

We are 7 weeks and 1 day pregnant today : D Just wanted to give you an update on what's happening as far as baby growth goes... this info is from babycenter.com.

Hands and feet are emerging from developing arms and legs- although they look more like paddles at this point that 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 the 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 its peepers, which already have some color, as well as the tip of the nose and tiny veins beneath parchment-thin skin. Both hemispheres of your baby's brain are growing, and its liver is churning out red blood cells until bone marrow forms and takes over this role. Baby also has an appendix and a pancreas, which will eventually produce hormone insulin to aid in digestion. A loop in your baby's growing intestines is bulging into the umbilical cord, which now has distinct blood vessels to carry oxygen and nutrients to and from its tiny body.

Not much of a tummy yet, although I sure do feel like it! I can feel a lot of stretching down there, and I have to pee about every hour or so! Sometimes my jeans don't fit quite right, so I have been wearing a lot of stretchy pants and skirts, and keeping my jeans up with a hair tie. From what I understand that's more bloat than baby, but oh well. No morning sickness yet (thank God!) but the nausea is there sometimes... especially when I smell things like vinegar, bbq sauce, worcestershire, alcohol, etc. I have been feeling much better the past week than I was before- the last 2 weeks my hormones were in overdrive and I wasn't sleeping well, so I was crying everyday for no good reason. My only excuse was because I'm pregnant lol! This week I don't feel quite as exhausted, which is nice. Probably thanks to the wonderful vacation I had last weekend.

Anyways, there's the update! I am crossing my fingers for a sticky baby- I know it is still early in the pregnancy, but I am still allowed to be excited!!