Dress or football uniform?

Halfway done, hooray! While the baby is sucking her finger hard (yes, get used to the fact that she will do it for a long time), you are wondering: is it a boy or a girl? You probably already want to buy some clothes or look at a stroller, but what color and style? Fortunately, 2nd-trimester screening is waiting for you right now (if you have not completed it yet). This includes an ultrasound scan, which will usually show the gender of the baby, if she, of course, deigns to turn the right way. If you have a girl, her uterus is already formed, a vagina begins to develop, and 7 million eggs have already accumulated in her ovaries! True, by the time of birth their number will decrease to 2 million, but 2 million grandchildren is enough too, right? ?

If your fetus is a boy, his testicles began to descend this week, although they are still in the abdominal cavity, waiting for the scrotum to grow, where there will be enough space for them.

If you didn't start feeling your baby’s kicks last week, you will feel them this week or possibly a little later. No wonder your baby trained for so long! She has grown and started to weigh more, but she still has enough space to spin and roll in your belly. Yes, and now, when her legs are straightened, doctors will measure the growth of the baby from head to toe.

By this week, many of your child’s taste buds can transmit signals to her brain, and she is likely to sense the taste of the food you’ve eaten whose molecules have mixed with your blood into the amniotic fluid. Of course, this is not known for certain, but some studies prove that what you eat during pregnancy may affect foods that your child will like when you start feeding her solid foods. So, please, eat broccoli more often — maybe then your little one won’t throw it across the kitchen in 10 months?

It's funny, but everything that you and your baby ate during pregnancy, you will see in the diaper in the first days after her birth. After all, she continues to produce black sticky stool — meconium, which accumulates in the intestines of the baby.

Measure baby:
Height (crown-to-rump) 6.3 in (16 cm)
Weight 0.66-0.75 Lbs. (300-340 g)