7 weeks

How far along are you?: 7 weeks

How big is baby?: the size of a blueberry

Maternity clothes?: no

Sleep?: I feel like I can't get enough

Best moment this week?: the nursery being painted

Food cravings/aversions?: aversions to pretty much everything

Gender?: way too early.

Movement?: way too early

Belly button?: still an innie

Symptoms?: nauseous every waking minute, gagging and heaving

What do I miss?: not feeling sick

What I'm looking forward to this week?: hopefully finding something that makes me feel better

Milestones?: Every day I am thankful that this baby is still sticking. Stick, baby, Stick!



This week's major developments: 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.