Your baby's skeleton is changing from soft cartilage to bone, and the umbilical cord — her lifeline to the placenta — is growing stronger and thicker. Your baby weighs 5 ounces now (about as much as a turnip), and she's around 5 inches long from head to bottom. She can move her joints, and her sweat glands are starting to develop.
No jokes about falling off of trucks, please - us or the Bean! I do have to wonder at the comparison. A turnip? Not exactly the most popular veggie. Why not a potato, I ask you? Or an orange?
This does mark the week when the fruit and veg analogy begins to fall apart a little bit: it's a cute idea, but there are fairly few examples of veg that are both the right length and the right weight. So this week, we begin alternating between the two, which rather messes with my head. (This week a turnip, next week a bell pepper? What's up with that?)
In other news, this is also a peak time fore hearing development. So Mommy and I have been reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory out loud. We're really just big kids at heart, ourselves.
by all means, read amusing literature to Bean. It will help distract the poor child from the thought of swimming around in sweaty amniotic fluid!
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