WooHoo – your baby has made the huge transition from “embryo” to “fetus” this week! This is a rather important maturation milestone and means that the baby is progressing as expected. Your baby still doesn’t weigh much or look like anything more than a shrimp but lots of development has already occurred. Limb nubs are starting to develop, as well as orbs for the eyes and some primitive brain development. The heart beat is getting stronger, and might be able to be heard through a fetal audio-monitor (although you might not be able to locate it at first.) It is not likely that you are “showing” just yet, unless this is not your first pregnancy. However your clothes may start to feel a little bit tight and not just in the waistline.

Before you run out and get a bunch of maternity clothes, consider just wearing loose fitting clothes such as yoga pants and longer tops. Or even just raiding hubby’s closet for around the house clothing.  If you are a career gal and have to dress up for work try some of the old tricks like using a hair tie around the button of your pants and loop it through the button hole. Or wearing a longer cami under a button up and only buttoning the shirt to just under the bustline. Again, unless this isn’t your first pregnancy it would be very unlikely that you have felt any movement. If you have been pregnant before you do have the prior knowledge of what fetal movement feels like and what is just gas. Some liken it to the fluttering of butterfly wings just under your skin. But don’t fret too much about it, you will spend plenty of time wishing the little soccer player would just be still for a few minutes as your pregnancy progresses.

Word of the Day:

Fetus – noun – the young of an animal in the womb or egg, esp. in the later stages of development when the body structures are in the recognizable form of its kind, in humans after the end of the second month of gestation. (www.dictionary.com)

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