- Pudding has the same awake and sleep patterns as a newborn. He/she has a favourite position for sleep and recognisable active and rest periods.
- Throughout our baby’s body, nerves are being coated with a fatty substance called myelin, which insulates the nerves so that impulses can flow smoothly.
- Scalp hair becomes apparent this week, it has sprouted and continues to grow.
- Pudding’s milk teeth buds have already developed and over the next few days the buds for the permanent teeth will begin to form behind the milk teeth.
- If baby is female the uterus starts to develop. If you’re having a girl, the vagina, uterus, and fallopian tubes are in place.
- If it’s a boy, the genitals are distinct and recognizable.
- Lanugo (little hairs) covers Pudding’s whole body now, trapping that charming cheese-like vernix caseosa (see week 19) to the surface to the skin.
- This week our lil’ fetus will start on an appetizing diet of amniotic fluid which he/she is now capable of swallowing, digesting, and passing the fluid as far as his/her tiny “large” intestines.
- Our little one’s size is around 6.02 inches (15.3cm) and 8.47 ounces (240gm).
Don’t be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.
~Oscar Wilde
