Week 12

Your baby’s face has started to look more and more human. Lengthwise, from head to heel, your baby is now 3 inches long. Now that’s a great development within a few weeks, isn’t it? Weighting around half an ounce, your fetus will start looking irresistibly cute during ultrasound pictures. You can see your baby’s proportions changing, with the growth of head matching up with the growth of other body proportions. Your baby’s arms, legs and fingers will be growing too lovably, just looking like what a newborns limbs should look like! While his or her posture becomes much less curled and much more upright, the most unique development by this stage is going to be his or reflexes. His or her fingers will open up, toes will start to curl and eye muscles will start to clench. Not only this, that little mouth will also start making sucking movements. Oh so cute! One of the most amazing facts about the 12th week of pregnancy is when you prod your lower tummy, your love is also going to squirm in response. What an astonishing development, right? Soon, his or her intestines will start to protrude into the umbilical cord, which will start to progress towards his abdominal cavity, while his or her kidneys will start to excrete urine into its own bladder. Not only this, your baby’s nerve cells will be multiplying at a rapid speed and synapses will be forming continuously into that tiny brain. The baby’s eyes have start to move from sides to the actual placement- the front of his face, and his or her ears are where they exactly should be. Most of the newly formed body structures are in place, but still there’s plenty of maturing to do. As a maintenance phase, your child’s fetus system continues to evolve. The fetal digestive system will start adhering to contraction movements, a skill set your little one will need soon after the birth to push food and fluid from the digestive tract. His or her bone marrow is busy making white blood cells, an immunity shield your baby needs to fight infections and other such germs-linked ailments. Your baby’s pituitary gland at the base of his or her brain has started producing hormones that will give him the ability to produce his very own babies in a few decades to come. You can totally hear your baby’s heartbeat by now – a feeling that is sure to race your heart with joy! Amazingly, by now your baby has just doubled up in size during the past three weeks.