What To Expect When You’re 9 Weeks Pregnant

At nine weeks, there’s a good chance that you’re feeling thicker around the waist. For good reason, too.

Not only is your baby growing in leaps and bounds, but your body is also undergoing vast changes to accommodate this growth.

Here’s what’s happening during week 9 of your pregnancy.

How Big Is Baby at 9 Weeks?

At a fraction of an ounce, your baby is about the size of a grape or a medium green olive.

From crown-to-rump, your baby’s length is 1 to 1 1/4 inches (2.2 to 3 cm). No longer an embryo, your baby is now a fetus.

Growing at a rapid pace, your baby is looking determined this week with hands flexed and meeting over the heart area.

The fingers are lengthening and developing touch pads at the ends where fingertips will soon be.

The tadpole-like appearances are diminishing as your baby starts to look more and more human. The neck is straightening out, and there are even tiny eyelids covering almost the entire eye.

With all of this growth and development, your little one has begun to move and kick. Though, you probably won’t feel these tiny movements for a few weeks.

Tips for a Healthy Pregnancy at 9 Weeks

How Many Months is 9 Weeks?

You are officially two months pregnant, new mama!

Most likely, things are starting to get “real” this week. If you attended your first prenatal appointment last week, then it might have seemed like an initiation into a whole other world.

Be confident in knowing that you’re thankfully not the first woman to have ever done this.

In fact, your body was made for this. Rely on the support of women who have gone before you and remember to follow your instincts.

Like famed midwife Ina May Gaskin’s said, “Your body is not a lemon.” You’ve got this!

Ultrasound at 9 Weeks

Week nine is a milestone week as your baby has officially graduated from embryo to fetus. Although there is no cap and gown, you and your baby’s progress is to be celebrated nonetheless.

According to the science of it all, there are two main phases for your baby during pregnancy: the embryonic phase and the fetus phase.

During the first phase, your embryo is busy forming major organs. After graduation, your baby (fetus) is all about growing and developing everything started in phase one.

9 Weeks Pregnant: Your Belly

By now, there’s a good chance that your favorite jeans are getting harder and harder to button. You might have had a few lie down on the bed and hold your breath kind of moments as you attempted to button up.

Just know that you’re in good company. Not only is weight gain typical for this week, it’s recommended.

So, there’s a good reason that buttoning your jeans has become an epic feat. Here are a few tips on how to extend your wardrobe. For example, a belly band can keep you wearing your old jeans well into your pregnancy.

Along with the other bodily changes supporting your weight gain, your uterus is growing, as well.

Not only has your uterus has doubled in size since you became pregnant, but your lower abdomen probably feels more firm than it did before.

In the coming months, your organs will shift and adapt to your growing baby.

For now, it’s at the beginning stages of the famous baby bump look.

9 Weeks Pregnant: Changes in Your Body

9 Weeks Pregnant: With Twins

It’s likely that you know by now that you’re carrying twins or multiples. You might have even heard their heartbeats via a fetal doppler monitor.

Now that your babies have graduated from the embryonic phase to the fetal phase, they’re going to take off in terms of growth and development.

What this means for you is that you’ll be dressing a rapidly growing figure and expecting to see the scale increase by about a pound each week.