Your best friend comes to you, visibly excited. "I just couldn't wait to tell you the big news. I'm pregnant," she screams. She is clearly overjoyed by the news, and goes on to tell you, "It is SO amazing. The doctor says I'm about six weeks pregnant, and I already feel SO different!" Wanting to show off your new knowledge of developmental psychology and the prenatal stages, you smugly reply, "It is just so great that your child is in the ________ of development because its organs are just starting to develop!"

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At six weeks pregnant, the baby is in the embryonic stage of development, which is when the major organ systems begin to form. The zygotic stage is the very beginning of development after fertilization, the germinal stage is the first two weeks of development, and the fetal stage is later on in development when the organs are fully formed and the baby is growing and maturing.

Your Best Friend Comes to You, Visibly Excited