Week 13!

My belly will soon be big enough to announce to the world that I'm expecting, but our baby is still tiny. In fact, she's only about 3 inches long, crown to rump roughly the size of a jumbo shrimp and weighs just about an ounce. Despite being so small, there's a fully formed baby inside my womb now who's much more proportional than she was a few weeks ago. In previous weeks, our baby's head dwarfed the rest of her — but now her head is only about a third the size of her body. Her tiny, unique fingerprints are already in place. Her kidneys and urinary tract are functional. As I start my second trimester, most of my baby's critical development will be completed!

I have resigned to the fact that I must put away my "regular" clothes and start wearing (at least) maternity pants to fit my bulging belly!