We're back! You may have noticed a gap in these weekly updates and I'm just going to credit Dr. Omar (he's no math-whiz) for the lapse. Sure, he was just a week off and the reports have jumped from 14 to 18, but my good friend, Ken Hatter, would just call it another example of Boolean algebra.
So what's up with the pickle?
This week we're about five inches in length from crown to rump and looking quite human. The rapid growth period is normalizing and from here on out (literally "out") the pickle's growth will be devoted to refinement and specialization moreso than just getting bigger for the sake of getting bigger.
In week eighteen the heart's ventricles are the darling project of the pickle's growth efforts. In an amazing feat of segregation, the baby's little tubes have fused, separated and will pump fetal blood through the umbilical cord to the placenta and leech off mami's oxygen- and nutrient-rich blood without ever mixing/touching.
Have faith, because I can't figure it out either, but that's what they're saying is happening. I like to think there's some kind of magic spell allowing Kasha's blood and the fetal blood to come "this close" (actually exchanging molecules!) without coming in direct contact with one another. Two entirely separate circulatory systems with one contained entirely within the other and not ever touching.
OK. I'm done. I was trying to blow your mind. But I'm done now.
As far as Kasha is concerned, the 18th week is marked by other eerie connections. At a rock n roll concert this past weekend she confided in me, her hands covering her waist, that "the pickle likes music!" And at dinner that she or he is not a fan of the spice. Kasha will also be glad to tell you that the pickle is squishing her guts and reeking havoc on her hips and ribs.What can you say? The pickle is already bad to the bone. Get it? Hips and ribs? Bones. Eh, here, see for yourself:
That's the pickle giving Bruce Lansky the whomping he so richly deserves. Stick n move, pickle, stick n move. (note: this is my hack-kneed attempt at animation and in no way represents triplets!)
I guess Kasha must eating more now,pick some foods that have more nutrients~
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make sure the pickle doesn't get too violent on the inside. you still want it to acclimate to society on the outside. lansky can wait, his day is coming. and don't let it get too comfortable either. don't want it to become institutionalized and not want to leave.
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