Welcome to Week 14 of Your Pregnancy. What Is Happening With Baby This Week? Your Baby is now performing more complex movements. At 14 weeks, Baby is very active, although you are weeks away from being able to feel all this movement. Baby can now squint, swallow, respond to touch, make basic facial expressions, bend, stretch, kick and even uses the wall of the
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Welcome To Week 15 Of Your Pregnancy! What’s Happening With Your Pregnancy This Week This week your Baby is starting to grow hair on his head, the eyebrows are starting to fill in and the pigment of the hair colour is starting to appear. Your Baby’s eyes and ears continue to develop. The ears are still sitting a little low on the head but are
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Welcome To Week 16 Of Your Pregnancy! What’s Happening This Week? Week 16 of your pregnancy brings more exciting changes. Your Baby is a little over 4 inches long from the top of the head (the crown) to the end of the spine (rump ) and is about the size of a large avocado. Nervous System Baby now holds his or her head a
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Welcome To Week 17 Of Your Pregnancy! What’s Happening This Week: Your Baby’s skeleton is continuing to change from soft cartilage to bone by the process called ossification and they can even move their joints. Baby’s head is still big in proportion with the rest of their body. Eyebrows, eyelashes and the hairs on your Baby’s scalp continue to grow. Your Baby’s eye lids
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Welcome To Week 18 Of Your Pregnancy. What’s Happening This Week? Week 18 is a very exciting time as your Baby begins a very active phase of her life. There is still plenty of room in the womb as baby turns and stretches, kicks and punches. Head to rump, your baby is about 5 1/2 inches long (about the size of a mango) and
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What’s Happening With Baby this Week? Today we are talking about the exciting developments that are happening with you and your baby during the 19th week of pregnancy! This week, a waterproof protective substance called vernix caseosa or just vernix for short is developing. Vernix is a thick white fatty substance that is secreted by sebaceous glands in Baby’s skin. This substance coats your
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