Your baby is growing rapidly, with longer limbs and a bigger brain. Fingers, toes, and facial features are also forming.
Learn more about week 8 of pregnancy: https://www.whattoexpect.com/pregnancy/week-by-week/week-8.aspx
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Get ready and get set for growing, ’cause that’s what your baby is doing ‘round the clock at a pretty spectacular rate during week 8. Measuring ½ to ⅔ of an inch long, roughly the size of a raspberry, much of your little one’s bulk is taken up by that big head, where tons of brain-building activity is going on. Nerve cells are multiplying and connecting with each other, the beginnings of a neural network that will later transmit messages from brain to body.
But it’s not just that baby brain that’s bulking up, growth spurts are happening all over your baby’s body. Limbs are getting stronger and longer thanks to newly developing cartilage and bones. Joint formation is also on the agenda this week, which means shoulders, elbows and knees are just around the bend. The beginnings of a neck and the upper lip are forming, and there’s a sweet suggestion of a button nose. Tiny eyelids cover tiny eyes, and fingers and toes are developing, though they’re still webbed.
Your baby’s umbilical cord is visible now and strangely enough, the intestines are developing inside of it. Don’t worry, those intestines will migrate into baby’s belly soon enough.
Even with all that growing going on inside of you, you probably won’t look all that different on the outside, except for those likely swelling breasts, which may already be working their way through the cup alphabet, and may be super tender to the touch. Just remember, every pregnant body grows differently, just like every baby.
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