Week 4-9 Pregnancy VLOG, baby 5 by Teresa Palmer
Weeks
4-9 weeks!!
What’s baby up to?
Week 4
Size: lol! A little too tiny to measure accurately (about 0.1 cm)
Comparable to: a grain of sand?!
Development: Implantation has just happened, and the placenta and amniotic sac are forming. The embryo is just a bundle of rapidly dividing cells!
Week 5
Size: Around 0.13 cm
Comparable to: A sesame seed
Development: The neural tube (future brain and spinal cord) begins forming. The heart is starting to develop and may begin to beat by the end of this week!
Week 6
Size: Around 0.6 cm
Comparable to: A lentil
Development: Heartbeat begins sometime this week and can even be detected via ultrasound by the end of this week. Tiny buds that will become arms and legs are sprouting, and facial features are beginning to emerge.
Week 7
Size: About 1.2 cm
Comparable to: A blueberry
Development: Major organs (heart, kidneys, liver) are forming. Limb buds are more defined, and the brain is growing rapidly—about 100 brain cells per minute!
Week 8
Size: Around 1.6 cm
Comparable to: A raspberry
Development: Eyelids are forming, fingers and toes are becoming distinguishable (though still webbed), and baby’s tail is shrinking as the spine straightens.
Week 9
Size: About 2.3 cm
Weight: Around 2 grams
Comparable to: A cherry
Development: Baby is starting to make tiny movements, though you won’t feel them yet. Facial features are becoming more human, and tiny muscles are forming.
Anything new these weeks?
Everything!!!! Eeeeek this is SO SO EXCITING! I just had a feeling I was pregnant and all the big feelings have been washing over me- giddiness, hopefulness, excitement, trepidation thinking about these delicate weeks and such a deep sense of gratitude to be getting to have this experience again.
Challenges
I have not been feeling well at all!! I know it’ll subside but if I don’t eat first thing in the morning I’m screwed. I feel like puking and often do. This is the first of my pregnancies where I have thrown up a few times. Just feeling an overall sense of seediness, I’m feeling tired all the time and just off my food in general. I can really only eat 2 minute vegan Chicken noodles without wanting to gag or throw up. I feel headachey a lot of the time too. Just an all round shittiness hahaha but I will take it ALL.
I also had a big scare during week 8 when I started bleeding red blood which turned into dark brown spotting for 5 days. I was absolutely gutted and horrified and assumed it was all over. I talk about the experience more in my video.
Reflections
Well, I could cry with happiness and also worry! It’s a double edged sword. I don’t want to get too ahead of myself and celebrate this with all of me and I also want to cherish these early days of pregnancy and allow myself to enjoy it. Telling the kids and seeing their reactions just completely warms my heart. It’s the sweetest thing in the world. Seeing my mum jump for joy was so beautiful too. It’s such a miraculous thing pregnancy that I’m just lapping up its magic.