Our Little Strauberry Patch: Week 11

Welp, it’s week 11 and the adorable little alien inside me is really starting to look human! (not that I can see it or anything… that’s just what ‘they’ say). The baby is about 2 inches long (or about the size of a kiwi) and weighs about a third of an ounce with a head about as long as the rest of the body! Can you imagine if that’s how all people still looked? HA! We’d all be top heavy, like the opposite of wee-bles! “Pee-ples wabble but they always fall!” Bear with me, I’m at work and I’m over-tired. :)

He/She is growing hair follicles (kinda like the kiwi!!!), has ears that are almost their final shape, a tongue and palate in the mouth and visible nipples!!! (So does mommy…. from down the street! Such weird things that happen to your body, I tell ya….). Fingernail and toenail beds are developing this week, so nails should start growing by next week! Hmm.. will baby have Daddy’s alien finger-toes or Mommy’s Fred-Flinstone stubble feet? I really can’t even say which one would be better…….. lol. Poor kid…

The baby’s body is straightening and his/her torso is lengthening. It has most likely started stretching, doing somersaults and forward rolls, although I won’t be able to feel that till the baby gets a little bigger. If it’s a boy, the testes are developing and if it’s a girl, the ovaries are developing! Very cool!

This may be a very strange thought, but I was watching a basketball game yesterday, thinking about the heartbeat and I had this all-consuming thought! There were just crowds and crowds of people in the stands and players on the court & benches and I was like man…. every single one of those people (with absolutely no exceptions) was in some woman’s belly! Unbelievable! Then I was thinking about ALLLLLLL the people that were at the inauguration on tuesday, and ALLLLLLLL of those people were inside a woman’s uterus. Everyone! I can’t really explain it… but was a very strange thought! It’s like when you’re walking home from school as a kid and totally zone out and realize you’re home already…. and you just forget (or take for granted) all your body had to do to get you there without you even thinking about it…. breathing, digesting calories & converting them to energy, muscle movements, BALANCING…. not to mention being on auto-pilot in your brain and just zombie-ing your way to your house! It was kinda like that…. like everyone knows babies come from mommies’ bellies……. but when you really look at an ENORMOUS crowd like that….. it’s a crazy thought!