Week 23

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

• The foetus is growing like gangbusters, and the brain is maturing. Some researchers believe the foetus has started to think. Others, to be safer, say we can't really tell when this happens, and it may be much later. (And anyway, it's probably just stuff like 'I think I like to suck milky things' and 'La, la,la, whatever'.)
• The skin is growing very quickly, but there's not much fat yet developed for plumping up underneath it, so the bambino looks a bit pruney.

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