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Week Sixteen Pregnancy

Welcome to week by week pregnancy this is Week Sixteen Pregnancy and during week 16 of your pregnancy brings more exciting changes baby measures about 4 inches long from the top of the head which we call the crown to the bottom of the spine which we call the wrong. The baby is about the size of an avocado. Baby can hold his or her head a little more erect now. Previous to this when the baby was moving inside the womb they work. Movements that. We're not stimulated by brain function they were just movements that were done randomly but now as you can see on the ultrasound baby is moving the arms and the legs in response to brain function. The baby's heart is beating you can see baby swallowing the tiny heart is pumping up a 25. Shares of blood through every day and this will increase as baby increases in in size and as the pregnancy progresses. The bones of the baby's head are also starting to ask flies wells the school legal system calcium begins to harden the bones and this process is called ossification. So as the bones of the head begin to harden.  There are spaces that are left between the bones of the had these spaces have soft structures called sutures wanting out and these are there for a very important purpose it allows the baby's head change in size so that the brain is not compressed as it grows and develops. And Read the full article