Thursday, April 2, 2009

updates

Beta numbers and symptoms at 5 weeks! (actually 5w2d today!)

March 25 11dp3dt 103
March 27 13dp3dt 246
March 30 16dp3dt 689
April 1 18dp3dt expecting 1200-1400 but it jumped to 1900

U/S scheduled for Monday morning, and Sam is coming, yay!! Have a safe, relaxing drive!!



I am feeling really well so far, no morning sickness but I had none with the 3 of my own but did have it from 9-18 weeks with the twins I carried, so if its only one this time maybe I will get away with not puking for 9 weeks at least 5 times a day, lol I am very tired and could take a 3 hour nap everyday, if only I had the time, lol
Boobs are sore and feeling more hungry than normal, have to eat a bowl of cereal about 11 PM every night. But other than those things I feel great! So excited to be pregnant again and for a great family!

I got to actually order refills of all my medications, that was exciting!

Each week I will be including an info about the developing baby including pictures of what stage it should be at, hope you enjoy!____________________________________________________________________________________

Week Five: The embryonic stage begins
You are 5 weeks pregnant. (about three weeks from conception)
The amniotic fluid is being built up.
The embryo grows from a tiny speck about 2mm - the size of a pin head.
By the end of the week the embryo will have more than doubled in size to about 4-5mm.
The egg has now completely grown into the mucous membrane of the uterus which covers the egg, the umbilical sac and the amniotic fluid cavity.
A fibrin clot closes the hole to the uterus cavity.
The placenta is developing.
The embryo starts receiving oxygen and nutrition through the placenta.
The cells making up the ovum are beginning to differentiate and specialize in areas of development. Some cells will make up the embryo; others the amniotic sac and placenta etc. The ovum, which has been floating around in your uterus, has now implanted into the wall of the uterus. Now comes an exciting time of rapid growth! The amniotic sac, amniotic cavity and yolk sac are developing. The placenta is beginning to form now too.

Implantation - Some spotting (also known as implantation bleeding) may occur about 10 - 14 days after conception. You may believe you are starting your period but generally this spotting (bleeding) is extremely light and lasts only a day or so.

At week five, you might begin to suspect you're pregnant since the embryo produces hormones which stop the mother's menstrual cycle. The fertilized egg, now called a blastocyst, is a fluid-filled cluster of about 500 cells, still multiplying madly. It is attached to the uterus wall and divides into two parts. The half attached to the uterine wall becomes the placenta, the vessel-filled support system that nourishes the developing life, and the other half will become the baby.

At the end of week five; nerve growth begins when a sheet of cells on the back of the embryo folds in the middle to form a tube, which will become the future spinal cord. At one end tube enlarges to form the brain's major sections. The amniotic fluid that cushions the embryo begins to form. Between the forth and fifth week the embryo more than doubles in size to about, 4-5mm about a 1/8 inch in size.

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