Baby’s Developments Your baby will measure about 15 inches and will weigh around 2.4 pounds. Your baby’s lungs will be fully developed by the end of this week, allowing for a larger chance of survival if born during this time. The most amount of weight…
Baby’s Developments Your baby is now 10.7 inches long and 2.7 pounds in weight. The room inside the uterus is becoming small and there is less space to move. So you might feel that your baby is moving less but do not worry about it. Your baby’s…
Baby’s Developments At this stage, the foetus starts to swallow a little bit of the amniotic fluid that is there to cushion it each day. This puts the taste buds to use as well. But still, almost all of the nourishment comes from the placenta.…
Baby’s Developments The foetus now measures about 24 cm head to toe and weighs about 450 g. Little tooth buds, as well as the pancreas (which produces many important hormones) are developing at this stage. The foetus also has a sense of touch now and…
Baby’s Development Up to now the skin of the foetus has hung in loose folds because there is not much fat. Fat depositing commenced in week 19 (17 weeks after conception) but it has been slow, starting from now it’ll happen rapidly. Right now the…
Baby’s Developments The brain of the foetus is now assigning differentiated areas for the distinct functions such as taste, smell, vision, hearing and touch. The foetus measures about 15 cm and weighs about 240 g, and the arms and legs are now in proportion to…
Baby’s Developments The foetus is growing fast now and the nostrils, which have been blocked up to now, start to open up and the baby starts ‘breathing in’ amniotic fluid as practice for breathing after birth. During this week, blood vessels will develop in the…
Baby’s Developments This week is an important week for your baby because its eyes that have been sealed shut up to now will open for the first time and it will start to blink. The foetus has 2 perfect sets of eyelashes now and more…
Baby’s Developments This is the last week of the second trimester and your baby measures about 9.8 inches head to toe and weighs about 1 kg now, and looks a lot like what it would look like at birth except a little thinner and shorter.…
