Your Baby is the Size of a Coconut

Baby is sleeping more

He's putting in longer stretches of sleep, which is why you're probably noticing more defined patterns of wakefulness, movement, and rest.

Baby's developing five senses

Your baby's brain is working overtime these days, developing faster than ever. Connections between individual nerve cells — he's got to make billions of them! — are being made at a super fast rate. He's now processing information, tracking light, and perceiving signals from all five senses.

Sure, your baby may not be able to smell too much right now, though he likely can smell and taste different foods you eat through the amniotic fluid, as well as catch a whiff of some beauty products you use (which also wind up in the amniotic fluid).

Lucky for you and your baby, yours will be one of the very first scents he breathes in, a scent that will quickly become his very favorite.

Pedaling his feet and sucking his thumb

So what's your little dove doing all day while you're busy feathering your nest for his arrival? Making faces, hiccupping, swallowing, breathing, pedaling with little hands and feet along your uterine wall, and even sucking his thumb. In fact, some babies suck their thumbs so vigorously while in the womb that they're born with a little blister on their thumbs!

The Mutlu Anne app is with you every step of the way on your pregnancy journey.

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