Week 14!

Whoops! I mistakenly said earlier that PJs is the size of a small gerbil - however adorably creepy that is, I was wrong! (Just this once - won't happen again!). I must have some pregnancy fog yet (I suspect in my case it might be permanent!) because I mixed things up and that isn't for two weeks... This week PJs is the size of a fist. A normal-sized fist, I presume, since they didn't specify. That means that gerbils are larger than I previously thought!

With all this confusion in size, I am including health-class style sideways tampax-esque shot of human lady body. Look at the baby in week 14!!

What PJs is up to this week:
Crown to rump, your baby is around 9 centimetres long and 43 grams. The body is now growing faster than the head. This week, its parchment-thin skin covers itself with lanugo (ultra-fine, downy hair that usually disappears before birth). Though eyebrows are beginning to grow and the hair on top of the head is sprouting, this hair may change in both texture and colour after birth.

About now, the fetus can grasp, squint, frown, and grimace. It may even be able to suck its thumb. Researchers believe these and other movements probably correspond to the development of impulses in the brain.