Kelsey ate my Lentil Bean! - Week SIX!

So here I am at week six... I must say it is a bit unnerving when the crampy (implantation) feeling stop and you don't really feel anything down there going on. Since I don't have morning sickness or anything (yet - and hopefully not at all) most of the day I don't feel pregnant. I have to keep reminding myself that I am.

In 6 days I meet with the nurse to go over my history and such. I don't know what else is going on during that appointment. Then 10 days after that I will have my first ultrasound! I think once I finally SEE the baby on the screen it will start not feeling so abstract to me. Right now I still feel like I'm talking about someone else and not myself.

But anyway - here is what the baby is doing this week. AND there is a picture at the bottom!

Your magical miniature baby is growing at unprecedented rates, developing hand plates and the beginnings of finger buds. What's more they're already demonstrating the reflex responses to stimulation! Ah at last! The beginning of symptoms of morning sickness should be kicking in for you about now if you're one of the 85% of women that experience it.

This week's major developments: The nose, mouth, and ears that you'll spend so much time kissing in eight months are beginning to take shape. If you could see into your uterus, you'd find an oversize head and dark spots where your baby's eyes and nostrils are starting to form. His emerging ears are marked by small depressions on the sides of the head, and his arms and legs by protruding buds. His heart is beating about 100 to 160 times a minute — almost twice as fast as yours — and blood is beginning to course through his body. His intestines are developing, and the bud of tissue that will give rise to his lungs has appeared. His pituitary gland is forming, as are the rest of his brain, muscles, and bones. Right now, your baby is a quarter of an inch long, about the size of a lentil bean.