Week 9

Yahoo - week 9! I am feeling confused about the various sources of information out there on the good old Interweb... My pregnancy ticker up top says 9 weeks. But the websites that I visit provide information based on your due date (April 23) and say that I'm 9 weeks pregnant and in week 10 (if that's how I "prefer" how to count it)... I'd rather know the facts, than go based on what I prefer! If it was up to that, I'd be eating my sashimi or that salami & mustard & relish on white bread sandwich that I am craving! Maybe it's my "pregnancy fog" (replacing my usual various fogs) but I am finding that a bit confusing...

Here's what PJs is up to this week:

At week's end, your fetus measures approximately 2.3 centimetres long. In both shape and size, it resembles a peapod and weighs less than 2 grams. The eyelids are fused and won't open until week 27. The wrists are more developed, ankles have formed, and the fingers and toes are clearly visible. Arms are growing longer and bend at the elbows. By week's end, the inner workings of the ears are complete. Though you can't yet identify the sex of the fetus by ultrasound, its genitals have begun to form. By now the placenta has developed enough to support most of the critical job of producing hormones.