Your baby is an individual now, with distinguishable fingerprints. She weighs nearly an ounce and is about three inches long, crown to rump. If it’s a girl, she’s now produced well over 2 million eggs in her newly formed ovaries. The intestines are moving out of the umbilical cord and into the developing abdominal cavity, and her organs and veins are visible through that super thin skin. She’s still covered in that soft fuzzy hair to continue to protect that thin skin. Even though about half her body measurement is her head right now, the next couple months she will grow in overtime and her body will catch up to be completely proportional by birth.

You’ve made it – this is the last week of the first trimester. The risk of miscarriage is significantly decreased now, and a lot of women begin telling others about their pregnancy, although that announcement is an individual choice. One of the biggest complaints many women have at this point of pregnancy is flatulence – unfortunately this also helps release the uncomfortable bloating that tends to be a side effect to pregnancy. Some women find that by eating smaller meals during the day helps relieve this symptom, and certain foods that they find are worse culprits than others. At this point you probably are needing to eat a bit more, approximately 300 more calories or so a day, but make sure these are healthy calories that give you and your baby the nutrition you need. Not sure what that entails? Check with your physician about what you should and shouldn’t consume. As a rule of thumb, you want to make sure you’re getting enough protein and calcium, and especially enough iron to help that pumped up blood supply you’re carrying now.