Week 7 Our little blueberry

The big news this week: Hands and feet are emerging from your baby's 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 the 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 your baby's peepers, which already have some color. You'd also see the tip of his or her nose and tiny veins beneath parchment-thin skin. Both hemispheres of your baby's brain are growing, and the liver is churning out red blood cells until bone marrow forms and takes over this role. Your baby 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 his or her umbilical cord, which now has distinct blood vessels to carry oxygen and nutrients to and from your baby's tiny body.

Source: BabyCenter.com

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