Well the morning sickness has been present every day, but I like to call it evening sickness as it only seems to get bad from about 4 or 5pm until bedtime. I daresay it should really just be called nausea as that’s all it has come to (long may THAT be the worst!).

My anti-sickness wristbands arrived yesterday, I thought I’d give them a go, and they seem to work! Put them on first thing this morning, I feel really sleepy/nauseated today. But again the bands seem to work.

So, what’s little jellybean up to in there?
Your baby is really beginning to develop more physical definition this week ? their oversized head isn?t just large and oblong anymore, it?s actually a little bit pointy. The tiny receding tail bud is now starting to be overshadowed by the growth of their legs, which are now complete with knees and the beginnings of toes. Their eyes and ears are the most visible features on their head and their miniature bones are starting to harden throughout their body. You also have some variation on a boy or a girl at this point, although their genitals won?t be visible enough to determine which color cigars you?re going to buy until around the 16th week.

Yesterday we went to Edinburgh Zoo for the day… arrived at 12noon and walked about in the baking sunshine until 4pm when we were too exhausted to go any further and resigned to it being “hometime”!!! It was a fantastic day, thoroughly enjoyed every second of it.

However… today both of us are paying the price… both of us are in agony from all the walking (so unfit!!). And I’ve been feeling icky all day… could this be day 1 of morning sickness? Or simply over-exertion? I’m hoping it’s the latter of the two!! I haven’t even gotten dressed today… YEY for jammie day!!!

Time for beano update:

This is going to be a busy week for your amazing little embryo. Their brain is still growing remarkably fast; miniature hand plates are starting to develop and the early formations of what will be their fingers are already visible. Also, the lower limbs do not develop quite as fast, so they?re pretty much still flippers. Up until this point, your baby has been very curled up with the head and tail in close proximity, but this week their trunk and neck are beginning to grow and straighten as their tail recedes into its resting position in the back. Even though your little miracle is only 6 weeks old, they?re already capable of demonstrating reflex responses to touch!

Today we are 5 weeks pregnant I’ve been feeling less bloated the last few days, still peeing heaps but hey it’s all good! Not much more to update really!

So how’s beano doing?

The changes to your growing embryo are not quite as drastic this week as they’ve been in the last few weeks. Growth is now largely focused on their little head, which is starting to develop much more rapidly than the rest of their tiny body. This is because their amazing brain is undergoing some very crucial and rapid development in order to effectively regulate their heart rate, blood circulation, and other vital functions. As for the rest of their miniature body, what were simple limb buds last week are limb flippers this week and the tail is more expressed. Amazingly, within a mere five weeks your little miracle is already developing the rudimentary forms of their liver, pancreas, lungs, stomach and nasal pits while their little heart is already increasing its circulation. Your baby is now a whopping 4-6mm in length.

All veryyyyyyyyyyyy boring, he didn’t even do a urine or blood test! How disappointing! Just gave the talk of no lifting heavy, no eating pate or cream cheeses. Make sure meat is thoroughly cooked, and be careful with chilled foods as the temp of the foods rises between you picking it off the supermarket shelf and taking it home.

I should hear from my midwife within the next 4 weeks…. that’s it. So now I’m in limbo until I hear from the midwife… oh well… on with the knitting of baby blankies!

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.