Wednesday, 21 March 2007

Bean at 7 weeks - 15-21 March

Back home and nausea has changed from the evenings to 3 shorts bursts a day. Nothing too hectic and otherwise I feel like I'm just along for the ride. Feel like I should be putting in more effort in bean's development but guess apart from eating right, drinking lotsa water and excercising, bean is going to do it all on his/her own.

Now almost half an inch long roughly the size of a raspberry, your baby has elbow joints and distinct, slightly webbed fingers and toes. In his oversized head, both hemispheres of his brain are developing. His teeth and the inside of his mouth are forming, and his ears continue to develop. Eyelid folds partially cover his tiny peepers and the tip of that nose you'll be tweaking someday is emerging. His skin is paper-thin, and his veins are clearly visible. Your little one also has an appendix and a pancreas, which will eventually produce the hormone insulin to aid in digestion. His liver is busy producing red blood cells, and a loop of your baby's growing intestines is bulging into his umbilical cord, which now has distinct blood vessels to carry oxygen and nutrients to and from his tiny body. Your baby still appears to have a small tail (actually, it's an extension of his tailbone), but it will disappear in the next few weeks.
You can't feel his gyrations yet, but your little jumping bean is moving in fits and starts around his watery home.

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