Week 8 #2

What’s happening this week?

Your baby…

• is about as big as a chocolate kiss
• average length 13 mm
• weighs about 1 gram – as much as 1 paperclip
• eyes more obvious as they have begun to develop colour in the retina
• fingers and toes beginning to form
• floats in a pool of protective liquid called amniotic fluid
• the gonads become either ovaries or testes
• bones are beginning to harden (ossification)
• heart is beating around 120-160 beats per minute.

You…

• placenta covers approximately 1/3 of the lining of the uterus
• uterus has doubled in size (although you can’t see anything yet)
• could notice that you need to urinate more often as the growing uterus presses on your bladder.