timeline

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    week 1-2

    nothing changed
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    week 3-4

    -conception
    -rapid cell division begins
    -zygote turns into blastocyst and travels down the Fallopian tube
    -blastocyts implants in uterus lining during week 4 and becomes embryo
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    week 5-6

    -neural tube closes the brain and spine cord with form
    -heart, organs, and bones start to form
    -develop head and trunk
    -arm, leg, limb buds apear
    -br5ain begains to develop
    -eyes and ears begin to form
    -heart begins to beat regular rythm
    -baby is 1/6 inch long
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    week 10

    -head is half of size of baby
    -all body parts are present
    -eyes,ears, arms, and legs are identifiable
    -baby is 1 1/4 inch long
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    weeks 7-8

    -brain and face begin to form
    -4 chamber heart
    -fingers and toes begin to form
    --trunk and neck begin to straighten
    -ears and nose have formed
    -baby is about 1/2 inch long
    -an major organs are formed
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    week 11

    -genitals develop
    -head is abt half of length of baby
    -teeth buds form
    -baby is about 2 inches in length and weight is abt 1/5 ounces
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    week 12

    -fingernails grow
    -face has more defined profile
    -intestines are in the abdomen
    -about 2 1/2 inches in length and weighs at 1/2 ounce
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    week 14

    -babys sex will become apparent
    -baby can swallow and make urine
    -baby is abt 3 1/2 inch in length and weighs about 1 1/2 ounces
  • week 16

    week 16
    -baby is moving but mom cant feel it
    -baby is about 4 1/2 inches in length and weighs abt 4 ounces
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    weeks 18-19

    -baby begins to hear
    -digestive sytetem works
    -vernix caseasa covers the baby
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    weeks 20-21

    -regular sleep and wake patterns
    -all oragans structcres froms
    -breathing movments occur but are underdevepoped
    -covered in lanugo
    -may begin to suck thumb
    -baby is abt 6 1/3 inches in length and weighs abt ounce
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    week 22

    -has nails, finger prints, eyebrows, lashes, and possibly hair
    -more active
    -heart beat heard with a stethoscope
    -lowest limit of visablilty (survival out side of the mother)
    -baby is abt 7 1/2 inches in the length and weighs about 1 pounds
  • week 24

    week 24
    -wrinkly skin, transparent, and pinkish red
    -lung developement
    -regular sleep and wake patterns
    -baby is about 8 inches in length and weighs about 1 1/3 pounds
  • week 28-29

    week 28-29
    -eyes begin to partiality open and close
    -central nervous system
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    week 31-32

    -finfished most major development
    -rapid weight gain begins
    -lanugo starts to fall off
    -baby is about 11 inches in length and weighs about 3 3/4 pounds