7 Weeks!

Here’s what’s going on this week:

Your baby:

• Still with the growing. Always with the growing. Your baby starts off this week at four or five millimeters long, but is a whopping half an inch by the end.
• Has a two-chambered heart, air passages in the lungs, and cerebral hemispheres in the braaaaaains.
• Has an appendix, which is kind of cool until you remember that the appendix is almost completely useless. But it’s there now! Awww.

You:

• Might be feeling a little urpy and gaggy and pukey.
• Are incredibly sensitive to smells.
• Like, seriously. Who burned an English muffin in the employee break room this morning? WHO? WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN, YOU MUFFIN-BURNING IDIOT!

I definitely feel pregnant this week!  The nausea has set in, and that’s just no fun.  You wake up feeling sick because your stomach is empty, and throughout the day the nauseous feeling comes and goes.  The best way I am able to keep the nausea to a minimum is to always have food in my stomach or on standby for when I start feeling sick.  Luckily, with Ryder I never threw up, and I don’t feel like I’m going to with this one either.  Thank goodness!  I’m not getting dizzy or light-headed anymore, so that’s great!  Other than that, my symptoms are heartburn and exhaustion.  Like I said, I definitely feel pregnant this week.

Alpha Mom said something else on her blog about this week that made me laugh because it is SO me! 

“You may feel more pregnant than you actually look (even though your uterus has doubled in size), and without that nice round belly you might not be getting a ton of “everything is okay” reassurance from your symptoms.
(Of course, as I have learned, all bets are off for a second pregnancy, as my previously stretched-out joey-pouch belly has rejoiced at the chance to totally fulfill its poochy destiny once more.)”

So…here you go…my left-over-Ryder-shouldn’t-be-this-big-but-can’t-suck-it-in 7 week belly!