Let’s get serious for a sec. You are 9 weeks pregnant, now. You are close enough to leave the first trimester behind you. Just one more month to go!
If you are a working woman, then, you can consider your company’s handbook to see how maternity leave is typically handled. The first prenatal appointment typically happens between weeks 8 and 12. So, if you have not visited your OB till now, then you will soon visit.
You may even see your baby’s tiny heartbeat on the ultrasound in this first appointment.
Your baby is about the size of a grape that measures 1 inch (2.3 cm) and weighs less than 2 grams. Your baby’s body parts continue to develop and change quickly.
The baby is now out of embryonic phase and enters into a fetal phase which means your little embryo becomes a fetus. The tail now disappears and your baby now looks like a small human being.
The developed placenta now takes up final task of producing hormones. The development of essential body parts is complete, now and these body parts are better defined structurally in the coming weeks.
You may not look pregnant but you may feel the pregnancy. You will begin to observe the following changes in your body.