9 Weeks

Yay! We finally make it to 9 weeks! Here are the milestones/ pregnancy symptoms for this past week: 1. I had my 9 week ultrasound! Heart rate is 177 and everything looked fine! 2. I met my midwife. She was great. I am hoping for a home birth if all goes well. 3. Breast tenderness started this week. 4. Nausea has skyrocketed. I have been feeling awful and am having a hard time keeping anything down. I have started trying to never have an empty stomach and that helps....sometimes. Some things that have made me puke this week are: 1. The smell of eggs on my husbands breath when he kissed me goodbye this morning. 2. Seeing the chip isle at the grocery store. 3. While doing the dishes, thinking of washing out a butter dish. 4. The smell of Turkey Bacon, a part of Little Lucky Buds favorite lunch. 5. Brushing my teeth 6. Thinking of having to have my progesterone shot(it really hurts lately since the whole site is very tough) 7. Anytime my stomach is empty, even sometimes in the middle of the night. So here is to hoping for less nauseous times ahead.

Development:
Although the baby is still very small, it is beginning to look more like a human being. Your babys back is straightening out and the tail is shrinking. In proportion to the rest of his body, the head is large and remains curved forwards onto the chest. The head is erect and the neck is developing well. Even though the eyes are well developed, they are covered by a membrane lid. The eyes will not begin to open and close for quite some time still. Your baby will begin to make tiny fetal movements as the muscles start to develop. You will not be able to feel any of these early movements, but you might be able to see them during an ultrasound. The arms and hands are progressing faster than the legs and feet at this point. By this time of fetal development, the hands have defined finger ridges and the tissue between them will die off to leave separate fingers. It is impossible to distinguish a male from a female at this time because external genitalia look very similar at this point.