This week the pickle has passed an Old Imperial benchmark: one inch in length from crown to rrrrump.
Another way to visualize the same thing: the embryo is about the size of a green olive. Pimento, sardine, almond, whatever. Just so long as it’s not stuffed with Blue Cheese. Soft cheeses like that are a major no-no with mothers-to-be.
But protein and calcium from other sources are in high demand as this week the muscles are forming, even allowing (the first) voluntary movements of the still-webbed limbs.
They say that the ears and nose never stop growing. Well, this week they’re starting, although they look nothing like what we’d recognize as human features. But, as a matter of fact,
if you knew what to look for you’d be able to recognize that by now there is incredible progress being made toward all organ systems and the internal groundwork has been laid for some of the everyday tools of the human trade. Namely, fingers, toes, knees and elbows.
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