4 weeks 3 days

This little one is starting to make his/her presence well known already! Talk about bloating... sheesh!! Eating loads, hungry all the time, peeing every 10 minutes (quite literally!), and don't get me started on the belching!! It's fine though, all part of the baking baby process!! No one told me that trapped wind is very common in pregnancy... my tummy has been soooo sore all day.

I've booked my first doctor appointment for Thursday morning @ 7am... way too early! Not quite sure what the first visit entails but it should be "fun"

So, what's going on at 4 wks?

By the end of this week the round and pointy ends of your little pear-shaped baby will be slightly more exaggerated and their body will look more like that of a miniature manatee. Despite your baby not looking particularly human without any eyes, ears or mouth, the earliest developments of what will become the larynx, internal ear, and eye lens are already forming, although you?d have to be a trained expert to recognize them for what they?re going to be in the future. Likewise, tiny bumps are forming on your little embryo which will eventually be their cute little arms, elbows, fingers, legs, knees and toes. What?s more your little swimmer will have a teeny tiny tail by the end of this week-- but don?t worry, it?s just the end of their developing spinal cord! A microscopic photo would reveal what seems to be their vertebrae filling out the spine and tail. Although they aren?t bones yet, but rather, the ?bone seeds? that will give rise to your baby's tiny vertebrae, ribs and sternum.