Gestational Age

Okay, some people are confused because I wrote that we were about 5 weeks along… that is based on “gestational age.” Technically, this “incident” happened 3 weeks ago (March 28, to be exact!), but they (those crazy doctor baby people) start counting from the last day of the last period = just over 5 weeks.

Based on a $3 iPhone iPregnancy application, haha, our due date is Saturday, December 19^th, but our doctor appt will be this week and we’ll let you know what date they give us!

This is what’s new with the baby this week:
*0.120 inches in length
*tissues differentiating rapidly
*organogenesis occurs now through the next 5 weeks
*forming a primitive heart and blood vessels
*heart begins to pump blood
*neural plate forms (later becomes brain, spinal cord and nerves)
*beginnings of the lungs, intestines and urinary system form

WOW that seems like a lot for how little this baby is!