Week 18

Check out what how your baby is developing this week: -

• You'll find many pregnancy books tell you that this is the week you'll start to feel a first baby move around. Don't hold your breath: you might not feel it move for weeks yet, and that doesn't mean there's anything wrong. Babies mostly move when you're resting at night. When you move around during the day, you rock the baby to sleep.
• According to some pregnancy experts, this week the foetus can make facial expressions.
• The foetus is definitely able to move around a lot, swing on the umbilical cord (well that's what it looks like) and can bite its own fingers or do the hokey-cokey if it feels like it.
• There is lanugo hair all over the body, and blood cells start to form in the bone marrow.
• Tastebuds are forming.
  

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