Monday, March 18, 2013

Baby Dickson 8 and 9 weeks :)

Your baby is growing at an amazing rate — about a millimeter every day — and now is the size of a kidney bean Your little bean is looking a lot less reptilian (even though she has webbed fingers and toes, his or her tail is just about gone) and a lot more baby-like these days, as his or her lips, nose, eyelids, legs, and back continue to take shape. His or her heart is beating at the incredible rate of 150 times per minute — about twice as fast as yours! And even though you can't yet feel it, he or she now making spontaneous movements as he or she twitches his or her tiny trunk and limb buds.


Your new resident is nearly an inch long- about the size of a grape and weighs just a fraction of an ounce. He or she starting to look more and more human. His or her essential body parts are accounted for, though they'll go through plenty of fine-tuning in the coming months. Other changes abound: Your baby's heart finishes dividing into four chambers, and the valves start to form — as do his or her tiny teeth. The embryonic "tail" is completely gone. Your baby's organs, muscles, and nerves are kicking into gear. The external sex organs are there but won't be distinguishable as male or female for another few weeks. His or her eyes are fully formed, but eyelids are fused shut and won't open until 27 weeks. He or she has tiny earlobes, and  mouth, nose, and nostrils are more distinct. The placenta is developed enough now to take over most of the critical job of producing hormones. Now that your baby's basic physiology is in place, he or she is  poised for rapid weight gain.


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