Guess what? Our amazing baby is getting even bigger, more beautiful, and smarter every day! As you’ve come to expect, there’s no shortage of growth and development this week:
· Pads are forming on Pudding’s tiny fingertips and toes. Soon those individual swirls and whorls of fingerprints will be apparent.
· Pudding’s eyes are looking forward now, but they are still firmly closed.
· Meconium (composed of products of cell loss, digestive secretion and swallowed amniotic fluid), is accumulating in Pudding’s bowel. This black gooey substance will become our baby’s first poop!
· The umbilical cord is growing thicker and stronger and continues to rush blood and nutrients to our growing baby.
· Pudding’s skeleton is transforming from cartilage to bone. Our little one’s bones remain flexible to make the journey through the birth canal easier.
· Reactive listening has begun for our baby, even though his/her ears are not yet structurally complete or fully functional.
· Meanwhile, different parts of Pudding’s astonishingly complex brain are developing to process our little one’s hearing and other five senses (sight, smell, taste and touch).
· Mind boggling fact of the week: if we’re having a little girl, her ovaries have already produced millions of primordial egg cells, which, within a few weeks, will develop into actual eggs! Phew… just wait till she’s a teenager eh?
- Bubs weighs about 4.97 ounces (140gm) & is 5.12 inches (13cm) long.
If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.
~Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
