Week 26

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

• The foetus will really spend time putting on more fat and muscle.
• Each week its chances of survival outside the uterus increases as it makes more surfactant for the lungs.
• According to one pregnancy expert, this week in the uterus your baby ‘is showing signs of sensitivity, awareness and intelligence’.
  
• It can detect light even through its still-closed eyelids, smell (sadly for the foetus the only things on offer is the amniotic fluid, which smells like a swamp), as well as hear.
• The baby will recognise other voices from now on.

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