It's time to eat!

Your baby has gone completely red. She’s not embarrassed, but this can be credited to the actively developing veins and arteries under her thin skin. Under this delicate skin, you can even see her bones and internal organs, so it's time to feed the baby well. All joking aside, she will double her weight in the next 4 weeks! Needless to say, now is not the time for fasting or diets, mommy! In her lungs, the alveoli develop — the very bubbles in which the blood is saturated with oxygen. And in the alveoli, the surfactant is already beginning to form — it’s a substance that prevents them from sticking together. Soon your child will be able to breathe on her own, is this not a miracle?

The baby is often kicking and making her presence known. At least once every 10 minutes. If you're lucky, you can even see her arms and legs on the surface of your belly (this is especially obvious when you are lying on your back). No need to worry — these movements are only normal reflexes that allow him or her to develop muscles and prepare for life in the big world.

You've already heard the baby’s heartbeat with a Doppler ultrasound, and this week you can hear it through a simple stethoscope! Buy one and keep it in the house to listen to her heart whenever you start to doubt that there is a real little human inside you.

The placenta is getting fatter, because it needs to transfer more and more oxygen and nutrients to the baby. Now its thickness is about 24-25 mm.

Would you like to dance? If you’re suddenly in a wonderful mood and want to start dancing, you can be sure that the baby will feel it — she is already beginning to realize her position in space.

And in other news — the baby is already the size of a glossy VOGUE magazine (yes, the fact that you’ll have a child soon is no reason to turn away from fashionable things and interesting events!).

Measuring the baby:
Height:
Crown to rump: 7.9 in (20 cm)
Crown to heels: 11.4 in (28.9 cm)
Weight 1.1 lbs. (500 g)