Your placenta continues to grow and nourish the baby. Features of your baby’s heart should be visible during an ultrasound. Scalp hair has sprouted and continues to grow. Baby’s legs are reaching their relative size and with the increase muscle…
You are halfway through your pregnancy, 20 weeks marks the midpoint. Your baby can hear and recognize the mother’s voice. The growth of hair on the rest of the body has started and the skin is getting thicker. The heart…
This week she/he is about 26cm long and is steadily gaining weight. Your baby’s bone marrow has started making blood cells, a job done by the liver and spleen until this point. The placenta has provided nearly all of your…
The eyebrows and eyelids are fully developed, and the fingernails cover the fingertips. The senses your baby will use to learn about the world are developing daily. Taste buds have started to form on the tongue, and the brain and…
He or she measures over 28cm and weighs up to 550 grams. Your baby does a regular ‘workout’ inside your womb. He or she turns from side to side and head over heels. Thanks to a fully developed inner ear,…
The lungs are developing branches of the respiratory tree and cells that produce surfactant. This is a substance that helps the air sacs inflate easily and also keeps the small air sacs in our lungs from collapsing. Taste buds begin…
Your amazing fetus is almost -30 cm long and weighs around 700g. His skin is red, translucent, wrinkled and covered with fine soft hair called lanugo. Your baby’s hearing is well established and she can make out a distorted version…
Baby’s inhaling and exhaling small amounts of amniotic fluid, which is essential for the development of his lungs. These so-called breathing movements are also good practice for when he’s born and takes that first gulp of air. Thumb sucking calms…
With more brain tissue developing, your baby’s brain is very active now. The eyes can blink, open and close. While her lungs are still immature, they would be capable of functioning with medical help — if she were to be…
The baby’s eyes open and close and baby sleeps and wakes at regular intervals and may suck a finger or thumb. This week your baby’s brain is taking a wrinkled appearance because of its rapid growth. Most of the lanugo…