Week 30

30 weeks down, only 10 to go! This week our little one is about 15.5 inches long... About the size of a Daikon (which is just a very large type of root).
It is getting more and more difficult to find a fruit/veggie that is the correct size to simulate our little baby. At this point I might have to start finding non-edible things... but we'll see. The baby weighs about 3 pounds now and is starting to lose its lanugo (the fine hair that was covering it to keep it warm) now that it's accumulating more body fat. Its lungs and digestive tract are almost totally developed and now has completely filled in eyebrows and eyelashes. It’s hanging out in about 1 liter of amniotic fluid, but this amount will steadily decrease as the baby gets even bigger and takes up more and more space in my poor uterus. Our little baby now has the ability to make tears! Not that it would have anything to cry about now... maybe just tears of joy! Until now the brain was relatively smooth and flat, but starting this week, all of the convolutions (the wrinkles/folds) are being formed. This allows our brain to increase its surface area, and store more information. Lastly, out little baby’s red blood cells are being made exclusively by the bone marrow (no more help from the spleen).