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Week 7 of pregnancy
Hands and feet are emerging from developing arms and legs although they look more like paddles at this point than the tiny, pudgy extremities you're daydreaming about holding and tickling. Technically, your baby is still considered an embryo and has something of a small tail, this tail is an extra of the tailbone. The baby has become bigger. -
Week 10 of pregnancy
A little over an inch or so long, crown to bottom — and weighs less than a quarter of an ounce. The baby has now completed the most critical portion of his development. This is the beginning of the so-called fetal period, a time when the tissues and organs in his body rapidly grow and mature. -
Week 12 of pregnancy
The most dramatic development happens this week. Reflexes, The baby's fingers will soon begin to open and close, his toes will curl, his eye muscles will clench, and his mouth will make sucking movements. The baby will squirm, although you won't be able to feel it. His intestines have began to develope. -
week 15 of pregnancy
The growing baby now measures about 4 inches long, and weighs in at about 2 1/2 ounces (about the size of an apple). The baby is busy moving amniotic fluid through it's nose and upper respiratory tract, which helps the primitive air sacs in thier lungs begin to develop. It's legs are growing longer than It's arms now, and the baby can move all of it's joints and limbs. Although the babies eyelids are still fused shut, it can still sense light. -
Week 20 of pregnancy
Your baby weighs about 10 1/2 ounces now. He's also around 6 1/2 inches long from head to bottom and about 10 inches from head to heel — the length of a banana. (For the first 20 weeks, when a baby's legs are curled up against his torso and hard to measure, measurements are taken from the top of his head to his bottom — the "crown to rump" measurement. After 20 weeks, he's measured from head to toe.) He's swallowing more these days, which is good practice for his digestive system -
Week 22 of pregnancy
At 11 inches (the length of a spaghetti squash) and almost 1 pound, the baby is starting to look like a miniature newborn. iI's lips, eyelids, and eyebrows are becoming more distinct, and it's even developing tiny tooth buds beneath it's gums. it's eyes have formed, but the babies irises (the colored part of the eye) still lack pigment. Fine hair (lanugo) are starting to grow on the baby. -
Week 25 of pregnancy
Head to heels, the baby now measures about 13 1/2 inches. it's weight — a pound and a half — isn't much more than an average rutabaga, but it's beginning to exchange the long, lean look for some baby fat. As it does, the babies wrinkled skin will begin to smooth out and it'll start to look more and more like a newborn. It's also growing more hair — and if you could see it, you'd now be able to discern its color and texture. -
Week 28 of pregnancy
By this week, the baby weighs two and a quarter pounds (like a Chinese cabbage) and measures 14.8 inches from the top of it's head to it's heels. The baby can blink it's eyes, which now sport lashes. With eyesight developing, the baby may be able to see the light that filters in through the mothers womb. It's also developing billions of neurons in it's brain and adding more body fat in preparation for life in the outside world. -
Week 36 of pregnancy
The baby is still packing on the pounds — at the rate of about an ounce a day. It now weighs almost 6 pounds (like a crenshaw melon) and is more than 18 1/2 inches long. The baby is shedding most of the downy covering of hair that covered her body as well as the vernix caseosa, the waxy substance that covered and protected it's skin during the nine-month amniotic bath. The baby is most likely in a head down position. -
Week 39 of pregnancy
The baby is ready to come out. It continues to build a layer of fat to help control it's body temperature after birth, but it's likely the baby already measures about 20 inches and weighs a bit over 7 pounds, a mini watermelon. (Boys tend to be slightly heavier than girls.) The outer layers of it's skin are sloughing off as new skin forms underneath. -
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