According to my new pregnancy journal, I'd be 6 weeks pregnant today! (Personally, I think it's off by a couple days, but we're just going to go with it for now).
Punkin's facial features have begun to develop and will continue to do so for the next 2 weeks. Punkin's spinal cord is beginning to form and so are his/her chest and abdominal cavities. Our baby's urogenital ridge is formed, which will give rise to the urinary and reproductive traits. Tissue from which the lungs will form appear in the chest cavity now.
Circulation is beginning to develop in the middle layer of tissue and in the lining of the placenta as the tiny muscles of Punkin's heart begin to beat sometime today!!! Punkin's heart measures only .1" long. This seems impossibly small, but in proportion to his/her body, our baby's heart is 9x as large as an adult's heart!
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