Week 7- All About Baby Smith
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.
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.
Week 7- All About Mama Smith
Baby Bump: Nothing yet
Weight Gain: Still the same at 131 pounds
Maternity Clothes: Nothing right now, but I look forward to making the switch once we get home whether I need to or not. Maternity jeans are sooooo comfy!!
Stretch Marks: Nope
Aches & Pains: RLPs, morning sickness (all day sickness), dizziness, fatigue, etc. If it's a pregnancy symptom, I'm feeling it. I'm ready to be out of the first tri!!!
Sleep: My wacked out dreams seem to be keeping me from entering a deep state of REM. I can fall asleep and then I'm waking up a few times in the night. It's not terrible though because I'm able to fall right back to sleep.
Baby Movement: Nothing yet, but I look forward to the time when I feel like her foot is so far up in my ribs it's going to come out my nose. :)
Food Cravings/Aversions: I crave Mott's mixed berry and strawberry banana applesauce and Ocean Spray Cran Apple juice like something terrible!!!! I have an aversion to most everything, especially Japanese grocery stores. OMG, it's really bad!
Gender: Scott's cousin's wife, Betsy, says there is a chain within the family and it calls for girl next. So far the great grandchildren have been this: boy, girl, boy, girl, boy, which for us to have a girl next.
Belly Button: No change
What I Miss: Home, and everything about the States!!!
Looking Forward To: Leaving this God fore saken country they call Japan. 2 weeks 5 days until we leave.
Energy Level: I read books and play cars with Carter during th day while laying on the sofa or in bed. Energy is at an all time low!
Baby Bump Week 7
And for a 7 week extra, Scott caught this on film. It just makes my heart melt! I know we'll eventually be able to get a better version of this shot, but this is sweet because it was not staged. He came over and put his hand right up there.
