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Fetal Development

  • 17 days… Your baby’s is beginning to develop blood vessel and its sex cells are developing into sperm or eggs!!!
  • 21 days… Your baby’s heart began beating.  He or she is only 0.03 inches.
  • 32 days… The tiny tongue and arm and leg buds begin to form.  The face now makes its first appearance.  Blood flows in your baby’s veins but is separate from yours.
  • Day 40… Your baby makes its first reflex move.
  • Day 44… Internal organs are present.  99% of muscles are present.  Electrical activity can be detected in your baby’s brain.
  • Day 52… Your baby is 1 inch long and is practicing spontaneous movement through moving limbs, pursing lips, yawning, hiccupping, touching the face, stretching, sucking.
  • 8 weeks… Your baby’s liver is making blood, the kidneys function, and the heart beats steadily.  Of the 4500 structures your body, your baby has 4000 already!
  • 10 weeks… Your baby is developing it’s own fingerprints!
  • 11 weeks… Your baby is practicing to breathe!  He or she can SMILE!
  • 12 weeks… Fine hair is developing all over your baby’s body.
  • 13 weeks… Your baby is active but you can’t feel anything yet.
  • 4 months… Nostrils and toenails are visible.  At about 4 ½ months he or she can feel pain.
  • 5 months… Do you feel him or her kicking?  This is when you will start to feel kicks, turns, hiccups. 
  • 6 months… Your baby is 9 inches long!  He or she will be able to hear by next week! Upon waking, your baby will stretch!
  • 7 months… Your baby opens its eyelids!
  • 8 months… Your baby’s eyes respond to light.
  • 9 ½ months… Say hello to the beautiful little human being that spent 9 months to prepare itself to be born into your arms!

 

Did you know...

That by the time you find out you are pregnant your baby’s heart has been beating for about 1-2 weeks?  Your baby is already so incredible and developing so quickly!  Your baby is alive and growing safely inside your womb.

Conception…the sperm and the egg cease to exist and a new human being with completely different DNA, possibly gender, eye colour, facial features, etc. has been created!  Your baby is smaller than a grain of sugar!