From babycenter.com and pregnancyguideonline.com...
This week your baby weighs a little over 4 pounds and has passed the 17-inch mark. He's rapidly losing that wrinkled, alien look and his skeleton is hardening. The bones in his skull aren't fused together, which allows them to move and slightly overlap, thus making it easier for him to fit through the birth canal. (The pressure on the head during birth is so intense that many babies are born with a conehead-like appearance.) These bones don't entirely fuse until early adulthood, so they can grow as his brain and other tissue expands during infancy and childhood. At this point, the amniotic fluid is at the highest level in the pregnancy. The amount will remain constant until delivery. Rapid brain growth has increased the baby's head size approximately 3/8 of an inch this week. Fat continues to accumulate which turns the baby's skin color from red to pink.
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Those last two facts are my favorites: the brain and head growth and the red-to-pink! Although, I guess I also love (for you) that its lil' noggin can fit through your birth canal at this point. We're almost there!
Yeah, I also love that the brain and head are growing in rapid fashion, and that Baby M is turning a nice rosy hue.
Although there are certainly days when I'm ready to have the baby, I'm hoping Baby M resides in that cozy womb a little while longer to collect all those necessary neurons and fat deposits, a good color, and a nice, strong lung capacity.
But yes, we are definitely almost there.
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