Dear Baby Bean,
You are developing quickly this week: Webbed fingers and toes are poking out from your hands and feet, your eyelids practically cover your eyes, breathing tubes extend from your throat to the branches of your developing lungs, and your "tail" is just about gone. In your brain, nerve cells are branching out to connect with one another, forming primitive neural pathways. We are daydreaming about your gender, but your external genitalia still hasn't developed enough to reveal whether Mommy is having a boy or a girl. Either way, you are about the size of a kidney bean and are constantly moving and shifting, though Mommy still can't feel it. Mommy is looking forward to the day you are big enough to have your heart beat detected on a home Doppler (which may be several weeks since she has a tipped uterus and you are making your home low down near the cervix, which is still buried down below the pubic bone)....then later feeling those first flutters from you wiggling all over the place!
We love you!
Grandma Dason
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