Week 11

It is 11th week since you were conceived. You are slightly more than two inches long now and weighing about a third of an ounce. You have been pretty busy growing this week. If you are a boy, testes are developing and ovaries if you are a girl. You now have distinct human characteristics: hands and feet in front of your body, ears nearly in the final shape, open nasal passages on the tip of tiny nose, a tongue and palate in the mouth and visible nipples. Your head is currently equal in length to the rest of the body and hair follicles are forming on the crown (as well as over the rest of the body). Your hands and feet have individual fingers and toes (goodbye to those frog like webbed hands and feet). Meanwhile, your fingernail and toenail beds begin to develop this week; by next week, the nails themselves will start to grow. At the same time, your body is straightening and torso is lengthening.

Keep up the good work, guys. Daddy and Papa are eagerly waiting.