The Baby’s Development – Week 24

• Approximate length 12 to 13 inches, weight 1.25 to 1.5 pounds.
• It still has no fat on it’s body yet, but it’s arm and leg muscles are well developed.
• It’s eyelids are sealed, but it makes facial expressions: frowning, squinting, and pursing it’s lips.
• It’s nostrils are opening and preparing to draw air into it’s lungs.
• The alveoli (“air sacs”) in the lungs are forming, but not enough that it can breathe outside the womb.

Source: Valley Medical Center, Weekly Parenting Email

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