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What’s going on in there: Fetal development at 8 weeks pregnant

Your baby is about the size of a swedish berry now and bean shaped. And as that little bean grows longer this week (the end of the embryonic period), it will begin to straighten out. Biology and the awesome superpowers of a pregnant woman?s body are pretty crazy: Your baby has grown from a single cell to nearly one billion cells. By the time you’re eight weeks pregnant, your baby?s outer and inner ears are developing and her eyelids are forming over her eyes as the tip of her nose, her fingers and her toes take on a much more distinct shape. It may be hard to believe, but her teeny-tiny heart and liver, as well as other major organs, are already in place, too. 8 weeks pregnant symptoms
Morning sickness

Maybe you didn?t feel truly pregnant for the first few weeks after that positive pregnancy test. It?s kind of hard to believe, especially if you haven?t seen your developing baby on an ultrasound scan or heard her heartbeat yet. But if you weren?t feeling queasy before, week 8 of pregnancy might be when morning sickness, which is caused by surging pregnancy hormones, will really kick in. (Sh*t?s getting real?sorry!) About 70 to 80 percent of women experience morning sickness during the first trimester and 50 percent experience vomiting (and, yes, it?s an unfortunate misnomer because some women suffer from it all day long an...