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FIRST TRIMESTER
Incredible Color Photos of Fetal
Development
THIRD TRIMESTER
Incredible Color Photos of Fetal
Development
Time Stage of Development
Week During this week, development of the retinas will finish and your baby’s
26 eyes will begin to open and even blink. If your baby were born now, he
would have a 50% chance of survival with proper medical care. This week
also marks the end of your second trimester. Next week, when you are 27
weeks pregnant, you will officially be in your third (and final) trimester.
Week As your baby begins practicing how to breathe this week, she may end up
30 with a case of the hiccups if she swallows too much amniotic fluid. Your
baby is also putting on more body fat, which will help keep her warm
when she is born. Although your baby would be premature if she was
born now, she would have a good chance of surviving.
Week This is the official end of the gestational period. Even though your baby is
40 ready and able to live outside of you, it is perfectly normal for your baby
to arrive as much as two weeks after his due date.
• Less than 1/10 inches long • Less than 1 inch long • About 3 inches
• Spinal cord, nervous system, • Face is forming with long, weighs 1 ounce
gastrointestinal system, heart and rudimentary eyes, ears, • Can move arms,
lungs begin to develop mouth and teeth fingers and toes
• Amniotic sac envelopes the body • Arms and legs are moving • Fingerprints are
• Brain is forming present
• Fetal heartbeat is • Can smile. frown,
suck and swallow
detectable with ultrasound
• Sex is
distinguishable
• About 5 1/2 inches long and • 10 to 12 inches long and • 11 to 14 inches long and
weighs 4 ounces weighs 1/2 to 1 pound weighs 1 to 1 1/2 pounds
• Strong heartbeat • Heartbeat is audible with • Skin is wrinkled are
• Thin, transparent skin formed stethoscope covered with protective
• Downy hair (lanugo) covers • Sucks thumb coating
body • Hiccups • Eyes are open
• Fingernails and toenails are • Hair, eyelashes, and
• Has strong grip
forming
eyebrows have formed
• Coordinated movements; is able
to roll over in amniotic fluid
• 14 to 17 inches long and • 16 1/2 to 18 inches long and • 19 inches long and
weighs 2 1/2 to 3 pounds weighs 4 to 5 pound weighs 6 pounds
• Adding body fat • Periods of sleep and • Skin is less wrinkled
• Very active wakefulness • Less active
• Responds to sounds • Gaining immunities
• Rudimentary breathing present
• May assume birth position from mother
• Bones of head are soft and
flexible
• Iron is being stored in liver
References:
http://www.epigee.org/fetal.html
http://www.babies.sutterhealth.org/babygrowth/fetaldev/index.ht
ml
http://www.expectantmothersguide.com/library/connecticut/ECTfe
tal.htm
http://www.webmd.com/content/tools/1/slide_fetal_dev.html
http://www.epigee.org/fetal_development.html
http://www.childdevelopmentweb.com/Pregnancy/prenatal.asp
http://www.cpmc.org/services/pregnancy/information/fetal_develo
pment.html