22 weeks pregnancy

22 WEEKS OF PREGNANCY:WEIGH,SIZE AND DEVELOPMENT

HOW BABY GROW

Now your baby is 22 weeks  ,now you can feel properly there movement and actions .

The size of your baby is about the SPAGHETTI SQUASH. Her weigh almost 430g and measures about 27.8 cm from crown to heel. She's proportioned like a newborn, albeit a thinner version, as her baby fat is yet to appear.

Your baby's fingernails now grow right to the tips of her fingers. Her eyes have formed although her irises don't  have any  pigment yet.

Baby is continues to swallow amniotic fluid, which is good practice for her digestive system. Her body is absorbing tiny amounts of sugar from; the fluid which supplements the nourishment  she receives from your placenta.

A sticky by product of her digestive system called meconium. begins to accumulate in her bowel/. When  your baby born, the meconium will be her first poo.

If you're having a baby girl. her mammary glands, which are responsible for making breastmilk ,start  to develop this week, if you're having a boy, his  testes are now starting to descend form his pelvis  into his scrotum.