Your baby is now 5/8 of an inch long,
about the size of a kidney bean. He/She's constantly moving and shifting, although you won't be able to feel these womb wiggles for several weeks yet. His embryonic tail is disappearing, and his eyelids practically cover her eyes. Still slightly webbed, his fingers and toes are growing longer. His arms have lengthened, too, and his hands are now flexed at the wrist. His knee and elbow joints have formed so he can now bend both, and his feet may be long enough to meet in front of her body. With his trunk straightening out, his head is more erect. Breathing tubes extend from his throat to the branches of her developing lungs. The nerve cells in her brain are also branching out to connect with one another, forming primitive neural pathways. Though you may be daydreaming about your baby as one gender or another, the external genitals still haven't developed enough to reveal whether you're having a
boy or a girl.
Your baby is now 5/8 of an inch long, about the size of a kidney bean. He/She's constantly moving and shifting, although you won't be able to feel these womb wiggles for several weeks yet. His embryonic tail is disappearing, and his eyelids practically cover her eyes. Still slightly webbed, his fingers and toes are growing longer. His arms have lengthened, too, and his hands are now flexed at the wrist. His knee and elbow joints have formed so he can now bend both, and his feet may be long enough to meet in front of her body. With his trunk straightening out, his head is more erect. Breathing tubes extend from his throat to the branches of her developing lungs. The nerve cells in her brain are also branching out to connect with one another, forming primitive neural pathways. Though you may be daydreaming about your baby as one gender or another, the external genitals still haven't developed enough to reveal whether you're having a boy or a girl.
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