Week 8- Raspberry

You are growing fast! You are now the size of a kidney bean. You are starting to look more and more like a little baby every day.

Mom still is feeling great. This week I am not feeling as hungry as usual.

Your Baby
It’s a boy - no wait...it’s a girl. This is the week that your baby’s primary reproductive organs will either become testes or ovaries. Even though the sex of your baby was determined at conception, the gonads took until now to become one or the other. If you’re planning on determining your baby’s sex before birth, it’s still too soon to show on an ultrasound. Even though you can’t tell the sex of your baby yet, some other visual distinctions are becoming apparent. Your baby’s face now has an upper lip, eyelids and the tip of the nose. A tiny tongue is even growing inside the mouth. The tiny little fingers and toes that you will be counting at birth have begun to form too. If you’re carrying twins, it’s possible that you may have one of each sex developing in your uterus.