9 Weeks 1 day Pregnant

Big news! You may be able to hear the heartbeat this week with the help of a Doppler. The first time you hear baby's heart, your own heart may skip a beat—it's the first real evidence that there's someone growing inside you! If you can't hear the heartbeat, no worries, your doc will just check again in a few weeks. Other amazing developments this week:

Baby is beginning to move, but you won't be able to feel anything for some time.

Baby is growing nipples and hair follicles. His pancreas, gallbladder, bile ducts and anus are all in place. Your baby's head is half the size of his body and his little chin is tucked into his chest. His tiny tail is beginning to shrink away, giving Junior a more human and less amphibious look.

Until now, all pre-babies look the same "down there." This week, however, your baby will begin to develop either male or female genitalia. While you won't be able to find out the gender of your baby for several more weeks, the version you'll give birth to is being developed right now.

At this stage, your developing fetus is 1-inch in length, about the size of a martini olive and weighs a mere 2 grams—a little less than a penny.

Yea!! This week we have our first appointment. It is just with the nurse to go over various tests I will be getting, costs, procedures, health history, etc. Not sure exactly what else will be involved but I am excited to get this ball rolling. Our 1st ultra sound where we get to see the baby and hear the heart beat is still the Nov. 20th but its inching closer.

This week I still feel ok. I have a little more of the "run down" feeling where all I wanna do is sleep. I am starting to eat more foods. Still having trouble eating "healthy" foods but I am trying. And my belly is becoming more prominent. So prominent that I had Joey take a picture. If you look closley you can see something there. Its mostly just bloat, but not sure how much longer I can hide it.