Your Mini's hands have grown bigger and stronger and the nerve endings in her fingers have developed her sense of touch. She's in there testing out her newfound abilities by touching her face and grabbing the umbilical cord.
You're already raising a little Einstein. Your baby's brain is developing at a clip this week and will continue to do so until she's five years old (so load up on the Omega 3)!
Baby's hair is now a short, bright white crop (Billy Idol, eat your heart out!). No matter what color it will end up—red, blonde, black—all babies' hair lacks pigment at this point.
Your baby has started growing taste buds and may be able to detect strong flavors in the amniotic fluid. If you could see inside, you might catch her sticking out her tongue for a taste and then grimacing, a sign that perhaps you should chill on the chili powder.
Your baby now weighs almost a pound and measures almost 11 inches from her head to her heel, which is how the Stretch Armstrong in your uterus will be measured from here on out. Up 'til now your baby's legs were curled tight up against her torso, so she was measured from her head to her bottom (or crown to rump) and not head to toe. This week your mini is about as long as a package of Oreos and as heavy as a large bag of tortilla chips.
I've been feeling more fetal movement in the past few days, especially when I was about to board my plane to DC last Saturday. Ryan was freaking out. I don't know if it was a good or bad freak out, but I'm thinking he was just excited for his first flight! I had a great trip visiting with my Cousins and now I'm back home and back to a work schedule. ):
This weekend will consist of cleaning up the house, cleaning out my closet and getting rid of some things we don't need! We are also looking into pricing some fencing for the yard so letting the dogs out to go potty isn't such a task for me once I get to stay home! Currently we have to leash them both up and take them out one at a time. With a baby around, I won't have time to devote to walking them that many times a day!
Reading Challenge update: I'm currently reading my first book on the list that I've never read before, 'Memoirs of a Geisha'. So far it's been an interesting book and it makes me very thankful that I live where I do and not in these small towns of Japan where girls are taken from their homes and forced to work as maids, and train to entertain wealthy men. It's kind of a sad story, very interesting and very well written. It's easy enough to understand, but not a book I would recommend for young readers. It's a more mature content than I expected.
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