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May 29, 2007
 
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Week 14: Stand Up Straight, Young Fetus

Because of being super busy with the 2007 Annual Conference Event, this week I present you with a detailed descrip­tion from a web site:

Growing by leaps and bounds, your baby is leap­ing and bound­ing. He or she is on the move almost con­stantly — and those move­ments are a far cry from those jerky twitches of last trimester (though you won’t feel any of them for weeks to come). They are now ballet-like, smooth and fluid. If you could catch a glimpse of your fetus now, you’d see a baby the size of your clenched fist (a skill, by the way, your lit­tle one now has). Your baby also has the coör­di­na­tion, strength, and smarts to wig­gle his or her fin­gers and toes and even suck a thumb.

It’ll be years before you’ll start nag­ging your off­spring to stand up straight — but unbe­liev­ably, he or she is doing it right now, with­out any prod­ding! No slouch any­more, your baby’s neck is get­ting longer and his or her head is get­ting more erect (giv­ing a more straightened-out appear­ance). And speak­ing of that head, your baby could be sprout­ing some hair (though the final color may not be deter­mined until birth) and the eye­brows are fill­ing in, too.

Hair growth isn’t lim­ited to the baby’s head, though. He or she is also cov­ered with a downy coat­ing of hair called lanugo, largely there for warmth. As baby’s fat accu­mu­lates later on in the preg­nancy, most of the lanugo will shed — though some babies, espe­cially those born early, still have a fuzzy coat­ing at deliv­ery (it sheds soon afterward).

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