18 Weeks Pregnant
Today I'm 18!
The baby is the size of a bell pepper moving about in the uterus, although I still don't feel anything. I feel gas bubbles and get really excited only to fart a few moments later, HA!
The baby's ears are settling into their final resting place and if it's a girl (fingers crossed!) her fallopian tubes are in place.
I listened to a podcast from Radiolab called The Primordial Journey that talks about how a baby is formed (and not the boring stuff I'm telling you, but the stuff no one talks about; the bits before the baby is a baby).
It was interesting because the podcast points out how we become male or female and what that process looks like.
Basically, once the gonad cells are given instructions to become female, they go nuts and start replicating. By the time the baby girl is five months (in the womb), she has tens of millions of eggs.
So technically, your grandchildren are in your womb before your child is even born! Crazytown!
Anyway, let's not get ahead of ourselves.
I still don't know what I'm having.
xo Jenea
- Everything is always okay in the end; and if it's not okay, then it's not the end.
The baby is the size of a bell pepper moving about in the uterus, although I still don't feel anything. I feel gas bubbles and get really excited only to fart a few moments later, HA!
The baby's ears are settling into their final resting place and if it's a girl (fingers crossed!) her fallopian tubes are in place.
I listened to a podcast from Radiolab called The Primordial Journey that talks about how a baby is formed (and not the boring stuff I'm telling you, but the stuff no one talks about; the bits before the baby is a baby).
It was interesting because the podcast points out how we become male or female and what that process looks like.
Basically, once the gonad cells are given instructions to become female, they go nuts and start replicating. By the time the baby girl is five months (in the womb), she has tens of millions of eggs.
So technically, your grandchildren are in your womb before your child is even born! Crazytown!
Anyway, let's not get ahead of ourselves.
I still don't know what I'm having.
xo Jenea
- Everything is always okay in the end; and if it's not okay, then it's not the end.
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