Crash landing

No doubt the "What to Expect When You're Expecting" book has been invaluable to millions of pregnant women, Anni included.
But that's not the book that has fascinated me.
Nope, the science geek in me has gotten a kick out of a book my mom gave us. It's called "The Miraculous World of Your Unborn Baby."
Yes, it has fewer pages. And yes, there are lots of color pictures, but they're the scientific-stuff-in-a-microscope-type photos.
Paging through the book serves as a refresher course in Human Biology: 101. And since biology became my college minor instead of major for a reason -- "You don't get into grad school with C's," my advisor said -- I definitely could use the review.
The science behind pregnancy really is fascinating. From gender determination to the sheer number of ducks that need to be in a row for a pregnancy to occur -- I was a biology minor, but struggled with those fancy terms -- I'm intrigued.
So, while it's nice to know Bun's the size of a spaghetti squash this week -- no joke, that's what "What to Expect" says -- I'm still stuck on my book's photos of actual chromosomes.
The funniest picture, though, is of a swimmer landing on an egg. It looks like a spacecraft with a banner trailing behind has just landed on mars.
How's that for a failed biologist's explanation of fertilization?