Oh, you are sleeping!

If you could look inside your belly, this is what you would see: your fetus is more and more like a newborn and sleeps like a real child: she closes her eyes during sleep and opens them when she wakes up. As the uterus stretches and its walls become thinner, more light penetrates inside, so your baby can easily distinguish between day and night (the main thing is for her to realize that she needs to sleep at night).

Despite the fact that the life cycles of the baby are more and more clear, it's becoming harder and harder for you to sleep. And it's not just that the peanut sometimes does not want to fall asleep at night. The amount of amniotic fluid is getting smaller, so the kicks and pushes are felt more and more acutely, especially if the kid hits the target on your liver or stomach.

By the way, the culprit for reducing the amount of amniotic fluid is also your baby. Every day she drinks up to half a liter of liquid, can you imagine?

The best news of this week is that the baby now has her own immune system. Antibodies are transmitted through blood from you to your baby, plus she is building her own immunity so that no microbes in the big world will be dangerous to her.

The baby's bones and cartilage are hardening, and she is getting stronger and stronger. The only bones that will remain soft for a long time are the bones of the skull. They are still mobile and form a soft spot on the crown — the fontanel, which will allow the head of the baby to acquire an elongated shape and calmly pass through the birth canal. Do not worry if after birth the baby will look like an alien with a long head! In the first months, the fontanel will remain soft, because her brain will still grow, and her head will stretch and take on a beautiful human form.

Measure baby:
Height:
Crown to rump: 11.8 in (30 cm)
Crown to heels: 17.2 in (43.7 cm)
Weight 4.4 lbs (2 kg)