Date of ultrasound: 08 December 2001

That’s me, at 11 weeks now. Yahoo, I am officially known as a “fetus.” My head is still the biggest part of my body, and at this stage I don’t even look human! More like a frog, maybe. But let’s sure hope that I won’t look like one when I come out!

Mom liked this ultrasound better than the first two because I was finally showing some motion. She said I was jumping around like a jellybean, and so this image wasn’t so good. It was the only other good news to lighten her day, which is now marked by good ol’ fashioned morning sickness. She definitely hates being pregnant now. She throws up almost everything she eats, feels so lazy and sleepy all the time — but still manages to go to work inspite of it all. She developed this awful sense of smell, she absolutely swears she would be a great member of the SWAT team of sniffer dogs.

Poor Dad couldn’t help Mom get through her morning sickness problems, but tries his best to be areally damn good cook at home. 🙂

The baby’s head now makes up more than half of its length. Over the next four days, fingernails, toenails, and hair follicles will appear (these are all specialized parts of the top layer of skin). Over the next week, the baby will assume a more upright posture. This week is a period of rapid growth. Although the average rate of growth until birth is 0.06 inch (1.5 mm) in length per day, the baby will begin to grow even more rapidly from this point.