6/25/07 Due Date Established - 5 weeks

After consulting my favorite websites, I found that my due date would likely be February 22, 2008. I was most fertile between 5/28 thru 6/2. According to the ancient chinese birth chart, if I conceived in May I will be having a girl, if I conceived in June it will be a boy. Bill and I believe I likely conceived in May unless those little guys lived the full 72 hours before implanting. So I guess we will truely not know this time if it is boy or girl, it will be a complete suprise.

5 weeks - Sweet Pea's development

Deep in your uterus your embryo is growing at a furious pace. At this point he's about the size of a sesame seed, and he looks more like a tiny tadpole than a human. He's now made up of three layers — the ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm — that will later form his organs and tissues. The cells are forming for his major organs, including his kidneys and liver, and his neural tube is beginning to develop. This neural tube — from which your baby's brain, spinal cord, nerves, and backbone will sprout — develops in the top layer, called the ectoderm. This layer will also give rise to his skin, hair, nails, mammary and sweat glands, and tooth enamel. His heart and circulatory system begin to form in the middle layer, or mesoderm. (This week, in fact, his tiny heart begins to divide into chambers and beat and pump blood.) The mesoderm will also form your baby's muscles, cartilage, bone, and subcutaneous (under skin) tissue. The third layer, or endoderm, will house his lungs, intestines, and rudimentary urinary system, as well as his thyroid, liver, and pancreas. In the meantime, the primitive placenta and umbilical cord, which deliver nourishment and oxygen to your baby, are already on the job.