Week 23
by Amalah
Your Baby: Is a tad bigger than last week! Are you sensing a pattern! Goodness, I never realized how boring this stretch of pregnancy is, what with the “close to a pound, just over a pound, 11 inches long, 11 2/3 inches long” comparisons week after week. The pancreas is kicking into gear sometime around [...]
Week 22
by Amalah
Your Baby: Is about 11 inches long, which is just about one inch shorter than your average 12-inch ruler. Has likely crossed the one-pound mark in weight. Is getting more defined facial features every day, and already looks unmistakably like himself or herself on a 3D ultrasound. You: Are gaining about a pound a week [...]
Week 18
by Amalah
Your Baby: Is about the size of a baked potato — five-and-a-half inches long. Has actual cute little ears and working ear bones and can hear sounds through the amniotic fluid — similar to how things sound to you underwater. Is moving, moving, moving. The baby is still small enough that you may not feel [...]
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 15
by Amalah
Your Baby: Is as big as a…wait for it…beefsteak tomato! Doesn’t that sound deliciously substantial? Am resisting urge to go pinch some produce as I type this. Has started “breathing” amniotic fluid in through its nose and respiratory tract, giving those lungs some very early practice for the real thing. (Late in the third trimester, [...]
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 [...]
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