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week 6
Your baby's jaw, cheeks, chin, eyes, ears, and nose are beginning to form
In addition, her kidneys, liver, and lungs are developing, and her heart is now beating 80 times a minute -
week 9
Your baby, now the size of a green olive,Tiny muscles are beginning to form,and he's gearing up to move his arms and legs. -
week 12
For one thing, his fetal digestive system is beginning to practice contraction movements necessary for eating, and his bone marrow is busy making white blood cells -
week 15
She's about the size of an orange this week, her ears have migrated to the sides of her head
can now wiggle her fingers and toes and make breathing movements in preparation for life outside the womb -
week 26
now weighs a full two pounds and measures nine-plus inches,And this week, her eyes, which until now were developing under fused eyelids, start to open -
week 18
now may be large enough for you to feel him twisting, rolling, kicking, and punching his way around the womb -
week 20
Your second trimester ultrasound, scheduled for anytime between 18 and 22 weeks, gives your practitioner a chance to see how things are going in there. -
week 30
Also growing daily is his brain, which is actually starting to look like the real thing with those characteristic grooves and wrinkles.
Now that your little genius can regulate his own body temperature and turn up the heat, he'll start shedding lanugo, the downy body hair that's been keeping him warm up until now. -
week 36
Now about six pounds and 20 inches long, with soft bones and cartilage to allow a safer journey through the exit door -
week 39
Coming down to the wire, your baby weighs around seven to eight pounds and measures 19 to 21 inches. Those measurements won't change much from now on, but her brain is still growing at an astonishing rate, a pace that will continue for the first three years of life.
