7 Weeks??

This week the 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. Eyelid folds are 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. [from www.babycenter.com]

This is so exciting to read. Today is the first day I have really "felt pregnant." I am feeling great most of the time. The only things I am experiencing are sore boobs, I feel bloated, I pee every 30 minutes, little spats of nausea and I am tired all the time. So far so good. I love being pregnant and cannot wait to go to my doctor's appointment next Wednesday. Yea!