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- Remember way back to week 10
when your little sugar plum
was the size of a prune
and your uterus was the size of an orange?
Now just five weeks later,
your not-so-little fetus is
the size of an orange himself
and your uterus is a whole lot bigger too,
which explains the teensy baby bump
you may be starting to sport.
This week your baby is tipping the scales
at just over two ounces
and is around four and a half inches long.
Amazingly, he will double in
size over the next few weeks.
So be prepared to do
some growing of your own
in the weeks to come.
Meanwhile there's plenty
of action going on
inside that womb cocoon.
The all-important placenta still
acts as your baby's kidney,
controlling the fluid
balance in his tiny body
and shuttling waste products
out into your system.
But the fetus' urinary system
is now sufficiently developed
to produce tiny amounts of
pee, and we're talking tiny.
Not more than a teaspoon of fluid.
Still, his teeny tiny bladder
fills and empties every 30 minutes,
practicing for the
diaper-filling days ahead.
Other developments down under,
the swelling between your baby's legs,
which starts out life as the same
indistinguishable tube of tissue,
is developing into either
recognizable boy parts
or girl parts, a.k.a. a penis or clitoris.
Good news if you're looking forward
to confirming your dreams
of baby blue or pink.
Though it will be a
week or two or even more
before an ultrasound will reveal
your little one's gender
with any certainty.
In other breaking gender news,
if it's a girl, her
ovaries are fully formed
and are making their trek from
the abdomen into the pelvis.
Hundreds of thousands of eggs
are developing within those ovaries.
Hoping one day to turn
into fetuses themselves,
your grandchildren.
Got male? If your baby is a boy,
his testes are now fully formed as well.
More good news:
your little one is starting to look
less like an alien
and more like the baby
you've been dreaming of.
His ears have finally found their way up
from the neck to their proper position.
Eyebrows are starting to develop
and baby's eyes are moving
from the side of the head
to the front of the face.
More Rembrandt less Picasso.
He's a masterpiece in the making.
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