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When talking about the size of a developing baby, most healthcare providers will discuss the size in terms of `crown-to-rump` length. Crown-to-rump length simply means the distance from the top of the baby's head to its buttocks. Because the baby's legs are usually bent or tucked inwards, crown-to-heel length is hard to determine. By the sixth week of pregnancy, your developing baby is 2 to 4 mm long. You may have even gained a few pounds at this point. However, if you have been nauseated or not eating well you might have lost weight.

You have actually been pregnant for an entire month now! More than likely, you have noticed some changes within your body and you might also notice that your clothes are fitting slightly tighter around the waist. Some women also gain pregnancy weight in their legs, face and breasts. It is not uncommon to experience heartburn or constipation at this time either. Symptoms are usually not severe at this time. If you were to have a pelvic exam at this point of your pregnancy, your doctor would be able to feel your uterus and would notice some changes in its size. Although you will not be able to hear your baby's heartbeat with a Doppler yet, you might be able to see it beating if you have an ultrasound now.

From week 6 to week 10 of your pregnancy, you will be in the embryonic period. This is a very important time of development for your baby and the embryo is most susceptible to experience developmental interferences at this time. Although the embryo is still very small, it is growing and developing rapidly. Your baby's early brain chambers are forming and the eyes are also beginning to form. Buds will appear and will develop into arms and legs in later weeks.

Many pregnant women will have their first prenatal appointment around this time. Generally, the first appointment is the longest and your doctor will gather a health history of you, the father and your families. You should ask questions and get to know your healthcare provider well. Your doctor will probably ask about any prior medical problems, your pregnancy and birth history and other gynecological concerns. You should tell your caregiver about any prior miscarriages, stillbirths or abortions that you have had. You should also tell your doctor about any medications that you take or allergies that you have. Your doctor will give you a pelvic exam and a Pap smear. During a pelvic exam, your doctor will be able to determine if your uterus is the appropriate size. A breast exam will also be performed. Lab tests may also be done at this prenatal visit. Some doctors will also perform early ultrasounds during the first prenatal appointment to date the pregnancy, confirm the pregnancy or check for abnormalities.

The heart is starting up. The fetus` blood group may be different from your own!


Facial features are visible, including a mouth and tongue. The eyes have a retina and lens.

The digestive system starts forming, beginning with the first cells of the stomach and the intestine.

There are small indentations in the head, ready for the development of facial features, eyes, and ears. The outline of the jaw starts to form.

See also:
Tests before pregnancy
Tests during pregnancy



Comments on week 6

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lindsk8 - 6 minutes ago
okay this may sound super weird, but i feel like im dying lol. like im on my deathbed and feel miserable. just because i have no energy to do anything, i dont want to eat anything in my house, sprite tastes like pepper, i try to make myself drink water, and eat, but eating anything in this house makes me nauseus. i didn't get sick up til this week so it feels like its all hitting me now, GAHHHH. is anyone elses vison get all screwy? like when your watching tv or looking at the computer?

heatherbby2 - 6 minutes ago
abovee.x5- try a 50 mg or less vitamin b6 when you get up in the morning or when you are normally starting to feel the sicness kick in.. they sell it in 5mg on up but dont get anymore than 50mg.. due to it also being in our prenatals you dont want to over due it...shirls... how are you doing? I had tried the ginger tea with my daughter and couldnt stand the taste of it.. pretty much like everything these days... can you drink it all day or in small amounts. Im hoping I can mute the taste with something else so i can stomach it....oh i have been sick all day...why cant we have a nice quite dark place at work for me to lay down..

Lissie-Charge - 49 minutes ago
oh rele? must be a load of rubbish thn! are u 6 weeks too?

sarissa5 - 1.1 hours ago
I've heard otherwise, that if you are sick it is a boy. Ha ha who really knows until the day comes!

Lissie-Charge - 1.5 hours ago
hi girls :) im offically 6 weeks today!! still no sickness..ive head thats a sign it can be a boy? or is that a load of crap??? lol

shirls - 2.6 hours ago
I don't know whether Ginger will help you but it seemed to help me. But maybe it was just psychosomatic. I used like a Ginger lemon blend or somthing. It was President's Choice brand - for my fellow Canadians. I think I'm going to try the B6 too. Someone on this page mentioned it I think, not sure who? 50-75 mg a day is supposed to help reduce nausea.

shellshocked - 4 hours ago
from wiki: Ginger is naturally caffeine free, so any tea which consists only of ginger does not contain caffeine. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_caffeine_does_ginger_tea_have

twincubator - 4.3 hours ago
Does ginger tea really work? And does it have caffeine in it?

shellshocked - 5.2 hours ago
It's probably just your kidneys prepping for the pregnancy. I hope you had a better night last night! How did it go?

shellshocked - 5.2 hours ago
Shirls, I think you would know for sure if you had a UTI. It is like peeing razor blades. I kid you not. It's horrible. I've had 2 UTIs. And, sometimes there is blood in the pee too.

shirls - 6.1 hours ago
August - Were you late and think there may have been a prgnancy? or do you think it was implantation bleeding? I'm not sure what you're asking. Either way, if the bleeding lasts longer than 2-3 days it is probably your period.

abovee.x5 - 6.1 hours ago
ginger tea...I'm going to get some. I've been trying to eat small meals but yesterday I was craving taco bell sooo bad and scarfed down THREE bean burritos only to have them come back up :( I learned my lesson on the binge eating lol

shirls - 6.4 hours ago
I was wondering that myself Butterfly - but I don't know the symptoms, because I've never had a UTI before. My God-daughter had one - and it was very painful for her. I don't have any pain with this. Today seems better though. I've only gone pee twice, and I've been up for 4.5 hours.

shirls - 6.5 hours ago
This morning I got some really bad nausea, but thankfully I wasn't sick. I had to go and lay down for 5 minutes until it went away. What helped me before was ginger tea, I'm going to go get some more, and eating. It helps me feel a little more normal to put some food in there. BUT I'm not a preggo that generally throws up. I walk around all day feeling more or less nauseated, it never goes away, just gets worse or better. I try my very best not to throw up, because it doesn't ever relieve anything. The symptoms never get better (for me anyway) after throwing up. I've thrown up about 5 times with each of my PG's.

bewitched21 - 8.1 hours ago
My Dr saw me at 5w2d and then I'm going back today at 6w4d to do a repeat u/s. I'm hoping we get to see the heartbeat today!

laglx2 - 8.3 hours ago
Thanks Lindsk8 I gues it would have been too early then I am hoping my doctor will send me at 12 weeks for an U/S I see him on Tuesday cross your fingers!!

augustbaby07 - 8.6 hours ago
Question: I have two children, ages 2 and 6 months. I thought I was preg, had all the symptoms, just didnt want to take a test because I was scared too and I started bleeding yesterday. It looks like a period, but not NEARLY has heavy as normal, or even the right color. Its much much lighter, but there are no major pains or anything out of the normal.

fibromum - 9 hours ago
To the lady asking about a scan, I had one at 5 weeks 5 days and you could see the gestational sack, yolk sack a tiny blurry area that flickered, this was the fetal pole with a heartbeat, the week previously I also had a scan ( I got my dates slightly wrong as it was an unplanned (but not unwanted) pregnancy)) and they could only see the two sacks no heartbeat or fetal pole yet hence the return for a second scan.

Lisa-and-Jason - 9.9 hours ago
Melissa, most Doc's won't see you until after you miss your second AF, unless you're considered high risk. There's probably a number of reasons why, and they probably make sense to Doc's, just not so much to us Mom's to be!

shellshocked - 17.4 hours ago
@ above5-- that sucks!!!!

abovee.x5 - 17.7 hours ago
so I puked my brains out tonight. I mean, it was like projectile and sudden. I barely made it to the bathroom. TMI I know, sorry. I was thinking tonight that this is by FAR the most nausea/vomiting I've had with any of my pregnancies. I need some advice on what REALLY helps with this all day sickness I have goin' on. I've tried the preggo pops..crackers...exct. It's sad when you get to the point right before you go to eat something and you stop and actually wonder,' how gross will this be comming back up?'. also after the puking, I get really hot and shaky...this is going to be fun

morgans mommy - 22.6 hours ago
Hi everyone, My name is Melissa. Im 6 weeks 2 days. Due July 13th. I dont get to see the doctor til December 10th, so im curious why my doctor wont see me til 10 weeks...?? =]

butterfly2121z - 22.8 hours ago
shirls- that sounds like a UTI

shellshocked - 23.5 hours ago
so far no nausea for me on this pregnancy!!!

sarissa5 - 23.6 hours ago
Lisa-and-Jason...what you described sounded exactly the same as my cramping experience. Glad its not just me!

nancylynn1025 - 23.8 hours ago
oh, also, how many of you had ultrasounds right at 6 weeks? I'll be 6 weeks exactly when I have my ultrasound, and I'm just wondering what I'll be seeing?

nancylynn1025 - 23.8 hours ago
hey guys, I'm jumping over from the week 4 bored. Just wondering when all of your morning sickness started? I'm having slight nausea after I eat meals, but not after ever meal. its super random. Just wondering if this is all I'm going to get, or it its just going to start later? I got a positive at 9dpo, so it seems as though my levels are pretty decent, but I haven't had any blood work done so I don't know for sure. anyways, just feeling a little worried cuz I'm not having very many symptoms yet. I don't even feel pregnant really, except my tatas are a bit sore.. and I'm tired! oh and a little bit of a twingey type pain in my uterine area. kinda feels like a stabbing pain, and sometimes it feels like its shooting all the way down my vagina. I don't know if that's normal for only being 4 weeks. I didn't have ANY pain w/ my first baby til 11 wks, and it started at around 7 wks 5 days with my 2nd baby. But 4 weeks seems so early, doesn't it!?

princessdicko2 - 1 days ago
hi ladies, my DS who's 7months rejected my breast about 5 days before I knew I was pregnant - he actully laughed at me when I tried to latch him on! My midwife said my milk probably tasted different!

lindsk8 - 1 days ago
Hello again! those of you asking if the cramping is normal i talked to my dr about it. he said hes totally normal, its usually just your uterus growing =] you may even still spot now, but as long as its not enough to fill a pad then you and your baby should be just fine =] LAGLX2 i was able to see my baby or little butter bean lol just fine at week 6 and 1 day, they say at week 10 the baby actually looks like a baby in the u/s by this time it will have already developed the arms and legs, fingers and toes! =] SHIZ, that is crazy, i'm sorry about your miscarriage, i've had two myself back last year and when i was younger. but i'm just blessed that god's blessed me with another little booger =] and i pray that it will make it just fine

kaylaaa - 1 days ago
thanks guys, I just wondered because I know that oxytocin stimulates uterine contractions, and that nipple stimulation releases oxytocin so... I hope it does dry up!! I want to wean but DS has other ideas hah

jens3rd - 1 days ago
Ultra sound tomorrow

starka2004 - 1 days ago
so I had a little bit of spotting start last night again. I think it was from the exams though. I mean I saw the heartbeat yesterday, so I'm not really worried I'm just thinkg 2 exams right after another might have banged things up a little in there. The spotting pretty much died off by morning so I'm not too worried right now.

Lisa-and-Jason - 1 days ago
Sarissa, same here. 1 1/2 - 2 weeks. When it first started it would wake me up at night. And it changes. Stabbing, then strecthing, then maybe cramping. Or in any order at all. It's let off the past couple of days, just every once in a while I'll get a strange pang. There was a couple of days when it was almost constant.

Lisa-and-Jason - 1 days ago
Heather, I know! What is up with this hunger? I'm so nauseated most of the time and can't even imagine eating, then all of a sudden.............I'm famished! Makes hubby laugh!

sarissa5 - 1 days ago
For those of you who have been slightly cramping, how long has it been? It is weird every night at like 9 I start feeling small cramps for the past 1.5 weeks.

shirls - 1 days ago
I keep feeling this intense need to go pee, and then I go to the bathroom and there's like a dribble. lol

shirls - 1 days ago
kaylaa - I know a couple moms that breastfed while they were pregnant. You'll have to make sure to eat enough food to keep them both happy. I've also heard that the taste of the milk changes, and alot of babies don't like it anymore and wean themselves.

Mommy4baby6 - 1 days ago
It is safe to breast feed as long as you can but your milk will dry up due to new sets of hormones needed for your unborn baby=)

kaylaaa - 1 days ago
Hey does anyone know if it's safe to breastfeed while pregnant? i'm sitll bf my 14 month old son

abovee.x5 - 1 days ago
I am soooo tired. I think I've had to pee like 6 times in the last hour. Just had to share.

Mommy4baby6 - 1 days ago
Hi ladies=) i have five children and expecting #6. I don't know much about bleeding in pregnantcy because i only bleed with my 3 m/c but i do know alot about the rest of it... Discharge during the whole pregnantcy is normal pain in the sides of your belly are streching ligaments which is normal i will tell you girl pregnantcy sucks and is full of surprises but it is so worth it when you see you beautiful baby=)

heatherbby2 - 1 days ago
Shirls---- sounds like another early night for you. I slept pretty well until my dreams and some serious hunger pains set in. I swear at 5 im ready to take the whole fridge down but as soon as i get out of the shower and begin getting ready, food is the last thing im thinking about and hurling is at the top of my list. Havent thrown up though just serious case of nausua...and BTW anyone else with morning/all day sickness, a simple dose of Vit B6 should do the trick, no more than 50 mg is what I hear. Just took one about 15 min ago and feeling normal again.

Lissie-Charge - 1 days ago
aww thank you! congratulations to all of you too! its good to be able to share my worries. im only young so prety useless at knowing what to expect! xx

shellshocked - 1 days ago
oh btw Congratulations Lissie!!! Shirls, what a HORRIBLE night! I'm so sorry!

shellshocked - 1 days ago
Yes, Lissie, totally normal to have stretching/sore muscles and uterine ligaments.

shellshocked - 1 days ago
Week 6 already? It seems like just last week I didn't even know I was pregnant. ;)

laglx2 - 1 days ago
I haven't been sick yet eithier, the most noticable symptom I have is very tender BB's and cramping. Does anyone know how early an ultrasound will show anything? I had one on the 22nd of October for other reasons and my results only showed cysts?

Lissie-Charge - 1 days ago
hey girls ive just been confirmed pregnant, and im exaclty 6 weeks tomoro! not been sick yet, but ive got rele sore stomach muuscles. is this normal??? x

SHIZ - 1 days ago
Shirls...i sure hope you can get some good sleep tonight....

SHIZ - 1 days ago
Welcome Lindsk8 & Suaf! Congrats! AppleB-i lost a baby on April 10th 2007 and found out like 9 weeks later i was 9 weeks preggo. My dh seems to think i was preg with both kids and the one that we have now kicked the other one out. Good luck with your explaination and hang in there!



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