The Seventh Week...

I found this interesting article on babycenter.com that I'd like to share with all of you. :) I love to read about how my baby is developing week to week! (Don't tell anyone, but sometimes it makes me cry!...Shhh!) Click on the highlighted links to see some other cool stuff!

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.

I am also excited to say that my spotting has stopped (yay!) and everything seems to be fine. The earliest appointment I could get with my OB is on October 7th, but I am hoping to be able to change that. Instead of having morning sickness now, I feel like I have all day sickness...ugh! If I'm not feeling sick then I am unbelievably tired! I can't wait to get into my second trimester! Not too long to go...I can't believe I'm almost into my second month!

Love you all!