- No wonder I’m getting so big, I’m now housing a wonder-baby who weighs nearly a pound and measures nearly a foot in length!
- Pudding’s inner ear is now developed to the point that he/she has his/her own sense of balance. Lucky for our little explorer, balance also promotes physical dexterity, which has Pudding actively feeling out his/her surroundings where skin, body parts, and the resident umbilical cord are the big sensory experiences.
- Our baby can now hear our conversations more clearly than before! When you talk, read, or sing, expect Pudding to hear you. Studies have found that newborns will suck more vigorously when read to from a book they heard frequently in utero.
- Pudding’s eyelids and eyebrows are fully formed and fingernails have grown to the end of the fingers.
- Pudding’s little pancreas is now further developed and he/she has also started producing their own hormones!
- Our baby’s brain has entered a stage of rapid growth, especially in what’s called the germinal matrix. This structure deep in the middle of the brain serves as a kind of factory for brain cells and disappears shortly before birth. But the brain’s amazing expansion program continues until around the fifth birthday.
- With some help from me, Pudding’s liver is starting to break down bilirubin, a substance produced by red blood cells.
- If our baby is male his testes begin their descent to the scrotum, primitive sperm have formed and he is producing testosterone.
- By the end of this week, Pudding’s length is 10.94 inches (27.8cm); weight is nearly 1 pound (430gm).
A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman,Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.~Benjamin Franklin
