Week 8

You might not be able to feel it yet, your baby's fingers and toes are now webbed, and he or she is moving arms and legs like crazy. You baby is growing at an amazing rate, with about half an inch of size right now. Now, the baby has a heartbeat of 150 to 170 times per minutes – which is astonishingly twice as fast as yours. As your baby's size is getting bigger, he or she has an increase in amniotic fluid while your womb is expanding to allow its growing tenant to reside. In the 8th week of pregnancy, the breathing tube is extending from your baby's throat to the branches of developing lungs. Your baby doesn't have his tail now, it has gone. As far as the cognitive development is concerned, the nerve cells are branching out to connect with one another, leading to the formation of primitive neural pathways. Your baby at this stage, is constantly shifting. As far as skin is concerned, your baby has paper thin skin and still bears the opaque, embryonic look. The pigment in his or her eyes is also starting to form, however, he or she will be able to only open their eyes at around 26th week of pregnancy. After eight weeks of pregnancy, your baby is officially called a 'foetus' that means an 'offspring'. But even now, the yolk sac is providing nutrition to your kid. Soon the placenta will develop structures, titled, 'chorionic villi', which will help attach the placenta to the womb wall. **The Baby's Size At 7 Weeks Pregnancy** He or she is no more blueberry-sized, he or she is more of a kidney bean-sized now! Growing at a stupendous rate of one millimetre a day, your baby is now less of a reptilian and more of a real human baby. He or she might still be having webbed hands and feet, he or she also has an upper lip forming along with protruding of the button nose and extremely thin eyelids, which will perhaps cover his/her entire eyes.