Pregnancy at 7 Weeks

Now you are 7 weeks pregnant and you are totally sure about your pregnancy. With hormones like progesterone and estrogen running in your body, you tend to feel tired very easily. With the help of these typical pregnancy hormones, your baby at 7 weeks now looks like a human fetus.

Development of your baby at 7 weeks:

• The heart now has four chambers and has regular beats
  
• Tiny lungs , muscles and bones are already forming
  
• The hands and legs are now taking proper shape
  
• The brains are now developing three district areas in it- the forebrain, mid brain and hind brain
  
• Face is now developing small facial and oral cavities.
  

How your baby looks when you are 7 weeks pregnant:

• The baby is like the size of a small red kidney bean 0.5 inches long
  
• But it has distinct little arms and feet
  
• The head is larger than its trunk, separated by the newly developed neck
  
• It has very tiny (may be microscopic) lips and tongue
  
• The sex glands are also developing in the baby; however, it’s too early to determine the sex right now.
  
• Your baby makes slight movements when you are seven weeks pregnant. The ultrasound scan can detect the movements of the baby.
  
• The nutrition is still supplied from the yolk sac although the placenta is developing slowly. In a few days, the yolk sac will perish and the food will be supplied by the placenta
  

If this is your first pregnancy, then you may take a look at the mirror and you might notice a tiny pooch in the lower part of your abdomen. Though, your waist continues to grow, you do not need maternity clothes yet. This expansion of your skin is not due to the growth of the baby, but due to hormonal changes.

Other changes in you in pregnancy at week 7:

• You salivate more
  
• More frequent nausea and vomiting
  
• You go through more heart burns
  
• You may feel like urinating more than what is normal for you (ones in every 20 minutes)