Week 30
by Amalah
Your Baby: Weighs about three pounds and is 17 inches long. Since most full-term babies are between 20 and 22 inches long at 40 weeks’ gestation, your baby will pack on more pounds than inches in the 10 weeks or so. Is starting to get a little crowded in there, but still has room to [...]
Week 16
by Amalah
Your Baby: Is a little over four inches long and weighs a little over 2.5 ounces. The chocolate bunny that I swiped from my toddler’s Easter basket weighed 3.5 ounces. But considering I shared it with my fetus, I am a good mom AND a responsible eater. Has fingernails and toenails, all of which will [...]
Week 13
by Amalah
Your Baby: Is about three inches long, the size of a jumbo shrimp, or a very small ramekin of tartar sauce. Has his or her own unique fingerprints already. Has intestines on the INSIDE of his or her body. (They start developing outside the body, in the umbilical cord, and then sort of…migrate up to [...]
Week 2
by Amalah
(Weeks 1 & 2 are the same. But from here on, all the other weeks are distinct. Pinky promise.) Your baby is: A hope, a wish, a gleam in your eye. Also does not actually technically exist yet. You are: Taking prenatal vitamins just in case. Drinking all the wine in the house so it [...]
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