In your sixth week of pregnancy, your embryo is four weeks old.

How tall is a shrimp? The growing fetus looks more shrimp than human right now, and it’s impossible to measure a shrimp like you would a baby or adult, from the top of the head to the bottom of the feet. Even after the fetus develops legs and feet, they are usually pulled close to the body, so the developing baby is measured from the crown of the “head” to the “rump.” Right now, the crown-to-rump length is about two to four millimeters.

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If you eat well during pregnancy you are most likely going to look and feel good. Eating well will give you the best odds of giving birth to a healthy infant.Pregnant women with poor nutrition show an increased incidence of low-birth-weight babies, premature , serious infant illness, miscarriage and stillbirth and a reduction of cell size in their baby’s organs. If you are not adequately nourished fewer nutrients will be passed to the baby through the placenta, negatively affecting the baby’s development.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) — Hepatitis G — a recently discovered strain of viral hepatitis previously thought transmissible only through infected blood — may also be transmitted sexually, a study suggests. Read the rest of this entry »