Week Seventeen
- By week 17, your baby weighs about 4.97 ounces (140gm) and is 5.12 inches (13cm) long.
- He or she has a much more normal "human" appearance now. She holds her head more erect and her body and limbs are longer in proportion to her head.
- Pads are forming on his tiny fingertips and toes. Soon those individual swirls and whorls will be apparent.
- Her eyes are looking forward now, but they are still firmly closed.
- Meconium (composed of products of cell loss, digestive secretion and swallowed amniotic fluid), is accumulating in the bowel. This black gooey substance will become your baby's first poop!
- The umbilical cord is growing thicker and stronger and continues to rush blood and nutrients to your growing baby.
- If your child is male the prostate begins to develop.
- Her skeleton is tranforming from cartilage to bone. The bones remain flexible to make the journey through the birth canal easier.
from: http://www.pregnancy.org/pregnancy/fetaldevelopment2.php
1 comment:
I like that whoever authored that was most excited about the meconium.
Baby's first poo!
Jilly, you're looking great :)
I gotta call you guys soon...
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