I guess some moderately important milestones took place for our little guy (or gal), but let's not worry ourselves with the past, and let's pick up with the here and now-- week 20! During this week, bones continue to ossify, finger and toe pads form, and teeth buds are blooming right below the gum line. With its limbs in relative proportion, th
e little swimmer no longer looks like a sea monkey alien, but rather a pocket-sized person. Also, visible eyelashes, eyebrows, and rosy pink lips put Hankemma in the running for high school prom king/queen even at a young age (whoa, look out moms and pops). First though s/he will need to conquer that whole learning to walk thing as well as the strangeness of middle school.On a more visceral note, that white, waxy goop has started to form over the babe in order to protect its developing skin from the amniotic fluids that it's chillin' in all day and night. No pruning here. Seen Knocked Up? Perhaps Juno? Maybe even a horrible "
makes me never wanna have sex again" VHS in 7th grade health class? Yeah that coating you see on your kid when the doctors hold it up in holy presentation before the umbilical cord gets snipped (NOTE: the umbilical cord is a breeding ground for stem cells--snatch those bad boys up)-- that coating is forming during this week. No, maam, no candle wax or light mayonaise was involved in the birthing of this baby, thats just the vernix caseosa!Well dear friends, week 20 is well under-way and by the end of this week we should know the sex of this pelvis-dweller (because let's be honest, trying to refer to the thing without a sex, and consequently a name, is just becoming awkward...pelvis-dweller?). Quite the exciting development, eh? Stay tuned for more (almost) weekly updates.
