week 19: dr. rosenberg the zucchini

Welcome to week 19. According to our trusty baby sources, Dr. Rosenberg is now somewhere around six inches head to bottom, or about the size of a small zucchini. Hair has begun to take root and sprout on the good doctor's noggin', and the brain is beginning to develop specialized areas for smell, taste, hearing, vision, and touch. Should the good doctor be a girl, she currently has SIX MILLION eggs in her ovaries, which will apparently dwindle down to less than two million by the time of birth. As a father, I can only hope she (if that is indeed the case) hangs onto all two million until the time she's married. Maybe I should go check into what kind of fashionable chastity belts they make these days...

Also, I think it's a shame that we can't remember what it was like in the womb. I'd love to know what the good doctor is doing and thinking about while floating around in there. I imagine that each time I talk into Overboard's belly, Dr. Rosenberg is wondering who turned on the intercom again, and "why don't they send down that pizza I ordered?"