7 Weeks ~ January 10th

We went in for the 7 week ultrasound and the baby measured 6 weeks and 5 days, but the technician said it's always +/- 4 or 5 days so that is great.  The heart rate was 128 and the normal range is 120-180.  After the ultrasound we met with our nurse Jamie and she told us that I have a tiny blood pocket called a hematoma which can form when the baby implants.  She stressed that it is very tiny and I should not worry about it and not to google it.  She told me I might have some bleeding or it might just dissolve on its own.  I was very nervous, but tried to think positively.  I can't wait until my appointment next Thursday.

Baby at 7 weeks

Baby is on the left and the yolk sac is on the right

Here is what BabyCenter says about the baby:

The big news this week: Hands and feet are emerging from developing arms and legs — although they look more like paddles at this point than the tiny, pudgy extremities you're daydreaming about holding and tickling. Technically, your baby is still considered an embryo and has something of a small tail, which is an extension of her tailbone. The tail will disappear within a few weeks, but that's the only thing getting smaller. Your baby has doubled in size since last week and now measures half an inch long, about the size of a blueberry.

If you could see inside your womb, you'd spot eyelid folds partially covering her peepers, which already have some color, as well as the tip of her nose and tiny veins beneath parchment-thin skin. Both hemispheres of your baby's brain are growing, and her liver is churning out red blood cells until her bone marrow forms and takes over this role. She also has an appendix and a pancreas, which will eventually produce the hormone insulin to aid in digestion. A loop in your baby's growing intestines is bulging into her umbilical cord, which now has distinct blood vessels to carry oxygen and nutrients to and from her tiny body.