7.5 weeks

Hey! Sorry it has been a little while since I last updated, but I have a had a weird week getting used to this whole pregnancy thing. To answer some questions:

- I have not been vomit-sick, just occasional nausea (usually if I'm hungry)
- Yes, we do want to find out the gender of this little one. I'm thinking we should find out sometime around Halloween.
- We have a girl name, we think, but we are still contemplating boy names... Will share more later.
- I can't wait until our next appt. on Sept. 1!!
- Our families are super excited, and the grandmothers have already started shopping for necessities (well, maybe they are not necessities, but they are welcomed!).

Thanks to our wonderful friends and families who have already showered this little one with blessings! :) We're excited!! Please continue to pray for safe pregnancy and healthy baby.

7 week update:

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, a little larger than a blueberry!

If you could see inside the 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.


Note: Travis was wondering why they refer to the baby as a girl. I told him it's a girl until they prove otherwise! :)