Baby #2 Week 13-22

Week 13 peach

Up until now, your baby's head has been proportionally larger than the rest of the body. But around this time your baby's body will start to catch up and grow more proportional to the head.

If you could peek inside your womb, you could see your baby's motor skills starting to work. Your baby is able to move and flex the arms and legs, but you won't be able to feel this movement until later.

Week 14 Lemon

This week your baby's well-defined face can also make expressions like a squint or a frown. Some babies may even start growing hair on the head or on the face, such as eyebrows.

If your baby is a girl her eggs will have already developed inside her ovaries. If you're having a boy, his prostate gland is developing.

Week 15 naval Orange

The hair on your baby's head is growing in and the follicles will make pigment if your baby has dark hair. Around the body, there's still fine hair (lanugo) to protect against being constantly exposed to the amniotic fluid.

Your baby's skin is thin and nearly translucent and if you were to take a look inside your womb you'd see small blood vessels forming underneath the skin. Some babies may even be starting to suck their thumb around this time.

Week 16 avocado

This week your baby's limbs are much more developed, legs and arms are longer and are becoming more controlled in movement.

Your baby's skeletal system is developing more as calcium is deposited onto the bones. Over the next couple of weeks your baby's weight will double.

Week 17 Onion

This week your baby has mastered some simple reflexes such as swallowing, sucking and blinking. Your baby may even have a bout of hiccups.

Fat is also forming underneath your baby's skin and will continue to do so in the later months of your pregnancy. This will help prepare your baby for the temperature change from inside your womb to the outside world.

Week 18 sweet potato

Many of the bones in your baby's body are starting to harden. Among these first bones to develop is the inner ear which is part of the reason why your baby might be able to hear sounds such as your heart beating or your tummy growling.

Week 19 heirloom tomato

Many of your baby's senses are developing as specialized areas in the brain are being designated for smell, taste, hearing, vision and touch.

Millions of motor neurons are continuing to develop in your baby's brain allowing more controlled and conscious movement.  Have you felt your baby kick yet?

Week 20 Small Cantaloupe

This week your baby's skin will become covered with a waxy substance called vernix which will prtect his skin from becoming scratched or chapped.  Your baby is also starting to produce meconium, the result of digestion, which will accumulate in his bowels and eventually pass during delivery or in his first diaper. 

Week 21 Banana

As your baby's digestive system develops, he will begin to swallow amniotic fluid and absorb small amounts of sugar.  However, most of your baby's nutrients are still delivered from the placenta.  Inside your uterus, while there's still room, your baby is actively moving around, kicking and flipping positions.  You may be able to track patterns in his movement.  

Week 22 Spaghetti Squash

Your baby's senses are really developing this week.  Taste buds are forming and nerve endings are developed enough for your baby to experience the sensation of touch.