Fetal development in pregnancy week 30: The light is visible at the end of the tunnel! Your oversized self and amazing growing baby have finally reached the single digits (in terms of weeks till birth)! The fine lanugo hair that has been growing all over their little monkey-like body is going to start falling off [...]

Your baby is really starting to fill up your uterus. This week he weighs almost 2 pounds and is about 14.4 inches long with his legs extended. He can now open and close his eyes, and he sleeps and wakes at regular intervals. He may suck his fingers, and although his lungs are still immature, [...]

Your baby’s growing steadily, gaining about a quarter of a pound since last week, when she was just over a pound. Since she’s almost a foot long, that makes for a pretty lean figure, but her body is filling out proportionally. Your baby’s skin is thin, translucent, and wrinkled, her brain is growing rapidly, and [...]

…and 6 days today!
How your baby’s growing: Your baby now looks like a miniature newborn, checking in at 10.9 inches and almost 1 pound. Her skin will continue to appear wrinkled until she gains enough weight to fill it out, and the fine hair (lanugo) that covers her head and body is now visible. Her [...]

You’ve made it to the halfway mark! Congratulations! Your baby weighs about 10 1/2 ounces now. She’s around 6 1/2 inches long from head to bottom, and about 10 inches from head to heel.
My little kiddo in 20 weeks and 2 days old… Halfway there!!! And getting pretty big now right? 142 days down, 138 [...]