baby update – 59 days pregnant

Your baby now measures between 1/2 and 2/3 of an inch in length (13–17 mm). It might be tight, but two babies the size of yours could play in the cap of a liter-size plastic bottle.

baby update – 58 days pregnant

The baby now displays a reflex response to touch — if an object touches the baby’s head, your baby will turn away. Semicircular canals that sense balance and body position are beginning to form in your baby’s inner ear. Today marks the day when the earliest recordable brain waves will occur.

baby update – 57 days pregnant

Over the next two days, indentations will form where your baby’s knees and ankles will eventually develop. The gonads are forming in the pelvis and, over the next week or so, will become either testes or ovaries depending on the sex of your child. Baby’s eyelids are also forming.

baby update – 56 days pregnant

Today, the critical period for your baby’s arm development has ended. The arms are now at their proper location and proportional size for this stage in development.

baby update – 55 days pregnant

Within the next two days, the hand plates will develop ridges indicating where your baby’s fingers and thumbs will be. Your baby now measures nearly 1/2-inch long (11–14 mm). It is so small it would fit into a peanut shell, and it weighs less than the whole peanut in that shell.

baby update – 54 days pregnant

• The baby’s eyes look pigmented (eye color won’t be established until after birth). The baby teeth (or first teeth) are developing beneath your baby’s gums.
• During these first 40 days of development, your baby has grown .04 inch (1 mm) a day, but the growth rate is not even throughout its body: One day, growth may be concentrated in the arms, the next day, in the back, and so forth.

baby update – 53 days pregnant

By tomorrow, your baby’s lower limb paddles will have developed foot plates and pigment will be present in the retina of your baby’s eye. Several small swellings, which will become the auditory canal and the grooves of the outer ear, are present on each side of baby’s head.

baby update – 51 days pregnant

Your baby now measures .3 to .43 inch long (8–11 mm), having doubled in length in just eight short days. Your baby is growing at a phenomenal rate. If your child grew as fast right after birth as it is growing right now, it would measure 15 feet tall by the time it was one month old.

baby update – 49 days pregnant

By now, the division between the cerebral hemispheres (two halves of your baby’s brain) is well marked. The upper and lower jaws are present. Your baby weighs about .00004 ounce (.001 g). That’s about as heavy as an eyelash from your lower lid.

baby update – 48 days pregnant

Because of the rapid brain growth that has been occurring, your baby’s head is much larger than its trunk. The nasal pits are easily seen and the muscles that control the baby’s eyes are forming. Your baby’s legs now resemble paddles.