This weeks big developments: Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his or her thumb! Thanks to brain impulses, your babys facial muscles are getting a workout as tiny features form one expression after another. The kidneys are producing urine, which your baby releases into the amniotic fluid around him or her (this continues until birth). Your baby can grasp, too, and if youre having an ultrasound now, you may even catch your little one sucking a thumb. In other news: Your babys stretching out. From head to bottom, he or she measures / inches - about the size of a lemon - and weighs / ounces. The bodys growing faster than the head, which now sits upon a more distinct neck. By the end of this week, your babys arms will have grown to a length thats in proportion to the rest of his or her body. (The legs still have some lengthening to do.) And your babys starting to develop an ultra-fine, downy layer of hair, called lanugo, that covers the body. Your babys liver starts making bile this week - a sign that its doing its job right - and the spleen starts helping in the production of red blood cells. Though you cant feel tiny punches and kicks yet, your little ones hands and feet (which now measure about half an inch long) are more flexible and active.
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 02:31:59 +0000
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