I will begin the “too much infor­ma­tion” posts with the progress of our not-yet-born child. Today marks the thir­teenth week of the preg­nancy and our baby is now the size of a plum.

Our baby has more than dou­bled in size dur­ing the past three weeks. And that’s just on the out­side — there’s plenty going on inside too. The diges­tive sys­tem is begin­ning to flex its diges­tive mus­cle — lit­er­ally — as it starts prac­tic­ing con­trac­tion move­ments, a skill our baby will use to make us buy more dia­pers. The pitu­itary gland at the base of the brain has started pro­duc­ing hor­mones. And the bone mar­row is mak­ing white blood cells, which will one day help he/she fight infec­tion (includ­ing all those germs passed around the snot-nosed playgroup).