Baby size chart during pregnancy

As soon as a new life arises in your stomach, it becomes incredibly interesting at what pace your future child is developing. How does he gain in height? How is it gaining weight? Unfortunately, according to dry tables from the Internet, it is rather difficult to imagine the parameters of a baby. It is even more difficult to brag to relatives: my baby is now 8.7 cm long! We decided to create our own chart to help visualize the size of the baby for each week of pregnancy. Even dad will understand when you say: now our child looks like a peach.

TOP 10 facts of child development in the womb

Each week of baby development is unique and inimitable / istockphoto.com

Pregnancy is an amazing and wonderful process. In just 9 months, which the child spends inside the mother, he turns from a poppy seed into a full-fledged person. Each week in this process is unique and unique, because the development of the baby goes on continuously. Here are just a few facts from the life of a child in the womb that may surprise parents-to-be.

1. Already at 5-6 weeks pregnancy, you can listen to the baby's heartbeat. At the same time, the child himself is the size of a grain of rice, and a small heart is no larger than a microscopic glitter from your shadows.
2. On 10 week your toddler is similar in size to a date. But at the same time he already knows how to... yawn. True, this does not come from boredom: scientists suggest that in this way the child masters jaw movements. Interestingly, by the 24th week, the baby not only yawns on average 6 times a day, but also stretches like an adult.
3. V 11 weeks the baby grows to the size of a medium fig. By this time, he has already formed arms and legs, on which there are tiny fingers. The favorite fun of the toddler at this time is to suck his thumb on his hand. Some scientists argue: depending on which hand the child most often pulls to the mouth, it is possible to determine whether he will right-handed or left-handed.
4. On 12 week pregnancy during an ultrasound, doctors can tell the expectant mother the sex of the child. However, they do not determine this at all by the appearance of the genitals. The baby at this time is the size of a large plum, and the genitals of both boys and girls look the same: like a barely noticeable tubercle. The doctor can "calculate" the sex of the child due to the angle of placement of this tubercle relative to the body. Boys have it slightly more than girls.
5. On 13 week the baby is similar in size to a kiwi. By this time, unique fingerprints have already been formed on the fingers, which will remain in the child for the rest of his life. Also, from this time on, the child already knows how to drink and write. He swallows amniotic fluid, which passes through the digestive tract and is converted into urine.
6. V 16 weeks the child reaches the size of a medium avocado. At this time, he can already distinguish between darkness and light. Scientists have checked: if you direct a flashlight's straight beam at mom's belly, the baby will wrinkle, squeeze his eyelids or turn his head away, as if the light hits his eyes.
7. On 20 week pregnancy, the baby is similar in size to a mango. By this time, his facial features, including the shape of his nose, become clearer. In some cases, on an ultrasound scan in 3D, a doctor or even parents may notice the external resemblance of a child to a mom or dad.
8. On 26 week your toddler is already the size of a cauliflower. And keep in mind that from this time on, he has the ability to distinguish between internal and external sounds. The kid perfectly hears the beating of his mother's heart and, sorry, the gurgling of her intestines. In addition, he reacts to parental conversations, music and extraneous noises.
9. WITH 27 weeks the baby starts to hiccup. And sometimes the hiccups are so intense that the mother can even determine its frequency. Doctors say there is no need to worry. According to one version, the baby trains the diaphragm with the help of hiccups and speaks to spontaneous breathing. According to another, hiccups happen from the fact that the child swallows too much amniotic fluid.
10. On 28 week in a child, real nails can already be distinguished on the fingers and toes, and the skin of the body is covered with vellus hair, which is called lanugo. If the marigolds grow back and thicken by the time of birth, then lanugo most often completely falls out at 38-40 weeks of gestation. However, there are cases when babies are born in the so-called "woolen shirt". There is no need to worry: in the first weeks after childbirth, the "newborn bristle" will disappear by itself.

Baby size chart by week of pregnancy

Each baby develops in its own way. After all, the size of the child in the mother's tummy largely depends on genetics and on the parents. In the 1-2 trimester of pregnancy, the growth and weight of the fetus is approximately the same for everyone. Starting from 34 weeks, the toddler is actively gaining weight, so here the indicators can be very different. For the table, we took the average values, but keep in mind: any deviations from them are not yet a sign of a problem in the development of the baby.

Comparative table of baby sizes during pregnancy / kolobok.ua

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