10 weeks

Today I am 10 weeks along...just two weeks short of finishing my first trimester. The "young one" is now approximately 1 inch long with recognizable eyes, ears, fingers, and toes. All of it's internal organs are functioning and it's brain is growing at an incredible rate of 250,000 new cells every minute.

What that says to me is, if my child's brain is growing at such an unbelievable rate, that means my body is the one producing those cells. The food I intake each day is being converted faster than I can eat it! My brain, my mind, my heart...are all working together to produce life.
The body is really a mind blowing machine! It is so hard to believe that in 40 short weeks, we are capable of building such a complex system, a system that may one day repeat this cycle of giving life.

There is no technology advanced enough to even come close to mimicking the efficiency of one's own body. In fact, breast milk still remains a complete mystery!