Diagram Of A Fetu
Your baby is now the same weight as an average rutabaga.
Diagram of a fetu. By the end of the sixth month your baby is about 12 inches long and weighs about 2 pounds. Female anatomy includes the external genitals or the vulva and the internal reproductive organs. If you had to deliver prematurely now there is a good chance the baby would survive. In human prenatal development fetal development begins from the ninth week after fertilisation or eleventh week gestational age and continues until birth.
Your baby s wrinkled skin is starting to fill out with baby fat making her look more like a newborn. Diagram of the human fetal circulatory system. The fetus is connected by the umbilical cord to the placenta the organ that develops and implants in the mother s uterus during pregnancy. An organ shaped like a flat cake.
Read about your pregnancy at 25 weeks. Her hair is beginning to come in and it has color and texture. A rope like cord connecting the fetus to the placenta. An unborn baby from the 8th week after fertilization until birth.
The fetus takes in oxygen nutrients and other substances from the placenta and gets rid of carbon dioxide and other wastes. The first baby teeth to fall out are the lower central incisors. Baby responds to sounds by moving or increasing the pulse. The baby weighs about 2 pounds 6 ounces and changes position often at this point in pregnancy.
The adult central incisors tend to erupt around the same time as the first permanent molars around age 6 7. If born prematurely your baby may survive after the 23rd week with intensive care. Through the blood vessels in the umbilical cord the fetus receives all the necessary nutrition oxygen and life support from the mother through the placenta. A functional circulatory system is a biological necessity since mammalian tissues can not grow more than a few.
Plural fetuses feti foetuses or foeti is the unborn offspring of an animal that develops from an embryo. Following embryonic development the fetal stage of development takes place. You may notice jerking motions if baby hiccups. A fetus or foetus ˈ f iː t ə s.