You are well proportioned and weigh about a gram. Every one of your organs is complete. Everything is now present that will be found in you as a full term baby and developed adult. Your stomach produces digestive juices. Your kidneys begin to function. Your liver is making blood cells. And your taste buds are forming. Forty muscle sets begin to operate in conjunction with your nervous system. And at this stage the cartilage begins to change to real bone cells.
8 weeks from conception
8 weeks from conception
8 weeks from conception
(courtesy J.C. Willke, MD)
Your fingerprints are being engraved. Your eyelids and palms of your hands are sensitive to touch. Hiccups frequently begin to occur from 8 to 9 weeks.
You bend your fingers around an object placed in the palm of your hand. You begin sucking your thumb. Your fingernails are forming. In response to a touch on the sole of your foot, you will curl your toes or bend your hips and knees to move away from the object.
3D sonogram
9 weeks (Shari Richard, Sonographer)
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You are 2.5 inches long and your whole body is sensitive to touch. You squint, swallow, pucker up your brow and frown.
3D sonogram
10 weeks turning over
(Shari Richard, Sonographer)
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Identical Twins, 10 weeks
10 weeks jumping
(Shari Richard, Sonographer)
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You begin to urinate. You can make complex facial expressions and you even smile. Your ribs are now rapidly forming.
11 weeks from conception
(courtesy J,C. Willke, MD)
11 weeks sucking thumb
(Shari Richard, Sonographer)
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11 weeks from conception