11 Weeks

It is week 11 for baby Ross & I am feeling a bit more like a sloth than someone who is about to enter into the seriously responsible roll of being a mother. At least I have 6 more months to get used to the idea.

T'Neal sent me this:

"To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labours, and holidays; to be Whitely within a certain area, providing toys, boots, cakes and books; to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals, manners, theology, and hygiene; I can imagine how this can exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it. How can it be a large career to tell other people about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute."

— G.K. Chesterton

..and I really do feel at times like there is a ginormous task ahead of me. The lack of knowing how things are going is driving me a little crazy & I really want to know now whether we are having a little boy or a little girl... I thought of a really pretty girl's name in the last week: Stella. Geoff likes it too :) We still like Fynn best for a boy. The names Lily and Noah are too popular :(

We have our 12 week scan on Monday the 14th Feb -- on Valentines day :)

I'm so excited that Aline & Eloise are experiencing these things at the same time as me. It is also nice that Aline has experienced the process before...she's so encouraging.

Here is the news for this week's development

Your baby, just over 1 1/2 inches long and about the size of a fig, is now almost fully formed. Her hands will soon open and close into fists, tiny tooth buds are beginning to appear under her gums, and some of her bones are beginning to harden. She's already busy kicking and stretching, and her tiny movements are so effortless they look like water ballet. These movements will become more frequent as her body grows and becomes more developed and functional. You won't feel your baby's acrobatics for another month or two — nor will you notice the hiccupping that may be happening now that her diaphragm is forming.